The Wound and the Stitch: A Genealogy of the Female Body from Medieval Iberia to SoCal Chicanx Art

The Wound and the Stitch traces a history of imagery and language centered on the concept of woundedness and the stitching together of fragmented selves. Focusing particularly on California and its historical violences against Chicanx bodies, Loretta Victoria Ramirez argues that woundedness has become a ubiquitous and significant form of Chicanx self-representation, especially in late twentieth-century print media and art.

Ramirez maps a genealogy of the female body from late medieval Iberia...