FigurationsAlways in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In Figurations, Claudia Castaeda shows how this malleability is itself generatedhow the child is "made" by different constituencies and how the resulting historically, geographically, and culturally specific figures are put to widely divergent uses, often to very powerful effect. Situated at the intersection of feminist, postcolonial, cultural, and