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- ↑ Ana Mendieta, p.127, note 11.
- ↑ Moure 1996, p. 90.
- ↑ Viso 2004, p.256, note 58.
- 1 2 Manchester, Elizabeth (October 2009). "Untitled (Rape Scene)". Tate.org. Tate Gallery.
Angelique Szymanek, "Bloody Pleasures: Ana Mendieta's Violent Tableaux," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 41, no. 4 (Summer 2016): 895–925.