Through Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman, an uncomfortable conversation regarding the fluidity of gender emerges, where such binary constrictions should no longer apply. For cases like Molina, who could be perceived as a stereotype for homosexuality by other literary critics, Molina does not need to be cured of his femininity, which is somehow symptomatic of homosexuality. We must allow for and explore this feminine question precisely because Puig is not merely exploring a stereotype. Puig, through Molina, is creating and allowing for a feminine identity freed from reductive understandings of gender. The male femininity is addressed through Molina and Valenin’s relationship development, whereby the end both are on the receiving and giving end
