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GARCIA, Beatriz Alicia. Perspectiva narrativa y género en malena de cinco mundos de Ana Teresa Torres . Revista Venezolana de Estudios de la Mujer [online]. 2006, vol.11, n.27, pp.067-086. ISSN 1316-3701.

The gender role as a social construction has influenced widely the identity and praxis of woman throughout the history. Firstly the Church, and modern State afterwards, both set up the patterns of relationship between genders, dismissing woman to a second place respect to man, and closing her in housekeeping and mother role. After several decades of feminine «liberation» the great changes reached are really few about this condition. Some women contemporary writers gather this problem in their fiction texts. This article intents to depict how the narrative perspective of the chosen texts is organised in function of setting a privilege of feminine figure and questioning likewise the social patterns of gender roles.

Palavras-chave : Woman; Literature; History; Social roles; Venezuela.