iLas Raras Feminine Style, Intellectual Networks, and Women Writers during Spanish-American Modernismoi proposes that the Modernistas' advocacy for a writing style they considered feminine helps us to understand why so few and perhaps no women were accepted as active participants in the movement. Las Raras studies how particular writers contributed to the idea of a feminine aesthetic, and it tracks the intellectual networks of Modernismo through periodicals and personal papers, such as albums and correspondence. Buenos Aires, Paris, and Montevideo figure prominently in this trans-Atlantic study, which re-examines some of the most important period writers in Spanish, including Rubn Daro, Amado Nervo, Enrique Gmez Carrillo. p The book also considers the critiques launched by women writers, such as Aurora Cceres, Clorinda Matto de Turner, and Emma de la Barra Csar Duyen, who experienced Modernista exclusion first-hand, deconstructed the Modernista discourse of a modern, feminine style, an