Castellanos, R. (1988). A Rosario Castellanos reader: An anthology of her poetry, short fiction, essays, and drama. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Rosario Castellanos was a Mexican female writer during the mid-1900s that reflected her own culture through her poetry, short stories, essays, and her three-act play: “The Eternal Feminine”.  As a collection of her writings, another generation can learn about her work with some of these works in English for the first time.

Castillo, D. (1992). Talking back: Toward a Latin American feminist literary criticism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
A collection of essays that discuss the literary merit of authors of different backgrounds.  She especially makes a case for the female authors and challenges critic Roberto González Echevarria.

de la Cruz, S.J.I. (1920). Arraignment of the Men. In Walsh, T. (Ed.), Hispanic anthology: Poems translated from the Spanish by English and North American poets. New York: G.P. Putnams Sons. (Original version in Spanish.) (also available at http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/POESIA/HOMBREEN.HTM) A collection of poems that brings together the Spanish authors that wrote on their native land. (http://books.google.com/books?id=AT6bliBF_68C)

de Zayas, M. (1990). The enchantments of love: Amorous and exemplary novels. Berkley: University of California Press.
A bestseller in Spain in 1637, a story told in the similar fashion to Bocaccio’s Decameron.  Ten storytellers all tell their own story, and the stories reflect the time.  The females tell stories of abuse by men and the men tell stories of moral flaws.

Paz, O. (1988). Sor juana, or, the traps of faith. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press.
Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz, a Spanish-American poet, who became a nun and a very intelligent women that needs to be understood  can be through her biography.
(http://books.google.com/books?id=MF99KgAACAAJ&dq=Sor+juana,+or,+the+traps+of+faith) 

Saint Teresa of Avila. (2003). The interior castle. New York: Riverhead Books.
Instruction in how to improve our souls through the simile of the soul being like a castle made of a single diamond.  Each different room of the castle becomes the trials and tribulations of our lives as our soul is perfected.  Written by a women in the sixteenth century is what makes this book remarkable.

Yehenson, Y.M. (1995). Latin American women writers: Class, race, and gender. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Through highlighting the commonalities and differences in writings and cultures in Latin America, an overall analysis of the writers is given.