| Summary: | Examining the weekly column, "Women's Lib and You," (WLAY) published in the Tico Times , the most widely read English-language newspaper in Costa Rica, between February 1972 to September 1972, this article explores the ways in which US American women and men living in Costa Rica negotiated and interpreted the transnational flow of the core ideas and practices of Second Wave feminism from the United States. Contributors to the columns, hiding behind the pseudonym "Anne Eliot," were a group of young, college-educated women, familiar with the Women's Lib movement in the United States, who adopted the groundbreaking new Ms. Magazine as their source of inspiration, thus cultivating transnational practices and identifications. Based on a close reading of the twenty-nine columns, along with oral histories and correspondence with women who took part in this tiny US American feminist circle, the article examines WLAY as a transnational textual and cognitive space for gender work that generated a sort of hybrid, unique guide and manual for US feminism as it applied to life in Costa Rica. WLAY is thus a compelling example of the way ideas regarding gender liberation were modified over time and space in the process of immigration and expatriatism and were problematized in their new context.
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