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Marta López Gil, editor, Getting on our Nerves. Literature, Art and Thoughts of Exceptional Women, Buenos Aires, Adriana Hidalgo Editora, 2000. The papers in this volume are essays written by women, where "by" also signifies about women. They all share a common trait: be it Simone Weil, Marguerite Duras, Marguerite Yourcenar, Hannah Arendt, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Delmira Agustini, Silvina Ocampo, Lina Wertmüller, Julia Kristeva, Meredith Monk or Cindy Sherman; be it literature, films, ideology, thinking or music, their tenets always seem to stand off the beaten track. That is why we talk about "getting on our nerves". These women "do not fit in". Their stakes lie "out of bonds". ?Theirs are strong, daring words, anti-discursive even, as regards what was validated, sanctioned, prescribed, even, by the dominant standard at the time when each one of them lived. ?In this book, Marta López Gil gathered a group of thinkers who were able to read through contradictions and ambiguities, eluding an absurd sanctification of the feminine. Liliana Bonvecchi, Celina Chatruc, Cristina Fangmann, Malena Lasala, Cristina Piña, María J. Regnasco, Amparo Rocha Alonso, Corinne Sacca Abadi, Liana Scalettar, Marcela Solá and Marta López Gil contribute to Getting on our Nerves. Literature, Art and Thoughts of Exceptional Women without the slightest doubt that they are writing about women.