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Luisa Valenzuela

Luisa Valenzuela Levinson (born 26 November 1938) is an Argentine post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized by an experimental style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective.

She may be best-known for her work written in response to the dictatorship of the 1970s in Argentina. Works such as ''Como en la guerra'' (1977), ''Cambio de armas'' (1982) and ''Cola de lagartija'' (1983) combine a powerful critique of dictatorship with an examination of patriarchal forms of social organization and the power structures which inhere in human sexuality and gender relationships. Provided by Wikipedia