El beso de la mujer arana tells the story of two cellmates in prison for very different reasons-Valentin for revolutionary activity and Molina for seducing a minor. El lugar sin limites is the story of la Manuela, a transgender prostitute in a decrepit town with little hope for the future. Both novels question traditional gender roles and "types," as the concepts of "feminine," "masculine," "man" and "woman" are all reconfigured in the light of marginalized characters' struggles to find a "place" in a society unwilling to accommodate them as part of the mainstream. Their struggle for acceptance in a society resistant to accepting them on their own terms reveals the stereotypes and assumptions linked to sex, gender, and sexual orientation. THICK with tensions surrounding issues of sex and gender, both Jose Donoso's 1966 novel El lugar sin limites and Manuel Puig's 1976 novel El beso de la mujer arana have biologically male protagonists that identify themselves as "women," and create definitions of womanhood that would include them.
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