Citation

Johnson KL. Frontiers 2004; 25(1): 39-58.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Frontiers Editorial Collective, Publisher University of Nebraska Press)

DOI

10.1353/fro.2004.0037

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Throughout her fiction Castillo's male characters use violence to control women's sexuality and to avenge its violation by other men, imposing and enforcing women's place—both the physical space women inhabit and the psychological and social space by which women are defined. Women's place is therefore socially constructed through external and marital violence.