Chicana writers have tended to focus on themes of identity, questioning how identity is constructed, who constructs it, and for what purpose in a racist, classist, and patriarchal structure. Characters in books such as Victuum (1976) by Isabella Ríos, "The House on Mango Street" (1983) by Sandra Cisneros, "Loving in the War Years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios" (1983) by Cherríe Moraga, "The Last of the Menu Girls" (1986) by Denise Chávez, "Margins" (1992) by Terri de la Peña, and "Gulf Dreams" (1996) by Emma Pérez have also been read regarding how they intersect with themes of gender and sexuality. Academic Catrióna Rueda Esquibel performs a queer reading of Chicana literature in her work "With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians" (2006), demonstrating how some of the intimate relationships between girls and women in these works contributes to a discourse on homoeroticism and nonnormative sexuality in Chicana/o literature.