“Cuerpos cosificados: Una lectura de Herencia (“Objectified bodies: A reading aboutInheritance”) by Clorinda Matto de Turner” examines how the female body works,above all, in the 19th-century capitalist society of Lima. We see how Margarita, theprotagonist, must advertise her body according to the fashion of the time, because ithelps her to search and find a husband. However, in order to have access to luxuryitems, she must enter into the market mechanisms of Lima: consumption, purchaseand sale of thousands of objects that, in turn, involve her psychologically and createconfusion to Margarita and Lucia –her stepmother. Thus, in the work, fashion helps topretend a social position in order to hide body deformities and to give the body a valueof use and exchange according to the Marxist logic. Finally, Margarita, in Inheritance,precisely reveals this construction of the female bod...