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In the landscape of 20th-century literature and social science, few pairings seem as unlikely—or as intellectually fertile—as that of the Mexican poet and feminist icon Rosario Castellanos and the American sexologist Alfred C. Kinsey. At first glance, Castellanos, the indigenous-rights advocate and author of the mournful, incisive Poetry Is Not an Office , occupies a different world from Kinsey, the entomologist-turned-sex-researcher whose Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953) shattered mid-century American Puritanism.

Castellanos, a poet, essayist, and diplomat, did not merely review the Kinsey Reports; she metabolized them. In her hands, the dry, clinical data of Western sociology became the raw material for a searing critique of Mexican womanhood, Catholic guilt, and the silence that binds women to their own oppression. kinsey report rosario castellanos english