Abstract
This study consists of a close reading of "Ondina" and "Simbiosis del encuentro," short stories by Carmen Naranjo. Following what Michel Foucault and some feminist theories suggest, the study suggests that Naranjo, in her two stories, offers a way to resist and confront socially established patterns regarding the female body. Naranjo turns around the myth of women's beauty and in doing so, presents the idea that the body should no longer be what defines woman.References
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