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La lucha : Latin American feminism today / [edited by Carolina Orloff ; with an introduction by Helen Vassallo].
Van Pelt Library HQ1460.5 .L83 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism--Latin America.
- Feminism.
- Women--Latin America.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 411 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Latin American feminism today
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Charco Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- From Mexico to Patagonia, the struggle for women's rights in Latin America comes alive here through the voices of those making the change. La Lucha offers not a curated harmony but rather a gathering of tensions. Thirty authors, scholars, and activists who are engaged in the fight for women's rights in seventeen Latin American countries. Indigenous, Black, queer, migrant, working-class, academic, literary, insurgent: their struggle embodies the contested definitions and priorities of feminism today. Their solidarity and determination have been revolutionary in areas as disparate, and as vital, as environmentalism, decoloniality, bodily autonomy, intersectionality and LGBTQ+ rights. An unprecedented collection set to challenge, provoke, and inspire.
- Contents:
- Preface / Carolina Orloff
- Introduction / Helen Vassallo
- Section I: La lucha is intersectional
- 'Berta didn't die! Berta became millions, Berta is me!' / Bertita Zúñiga Cáceres
- Blood, language and surname: Indigenous women and nation states / Yásnaya Elena A. Gil
- Latin American feminism(s) / Bianka Rodríguez
- Asylum under siege: Women in the age of zero tolerance / Valeria Luiselli and Ana Puente Flores
- Interrupted bodies: From Jus Primae Noctis to forced motherhood in girls and teenagers in Guatemala / Carolina Escobar Sarti
- On the perpetrators of femicide and patriarchal hate toward racialized women / Jackeline Romio
- The challenges of theoretical-political feminist practices in Latin America / Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso
- Sexism and racism: The experience of Black women in Latin America / Esther Pineda G.
- A brief reflection on speaking-place / Djamila Ribeiro
- Rebuilding feminism to rebuild politics / Rita Segato
- Section II: La lucha is territorial
- Eco-territorial feminisms in Abya Yala / Francisca Fernández Droguett
- Decolonizing / Diamela Eltit
- Women will give each other a voice
- Cristina Burneo Salazar
- Invisible hands / Lina Meruane
- The feminism we profess: Reflections on the home / Shirley Campbell Barr
- Women working the land: Lily / Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
- Being feminist in Cuba: A wager and a hope
- Zaida Capote Cruz
- Panic room / Selva Almada
- Latin American feminisms in their commitment to transformation / Alba Carosio
- Section III: La lucha is personal
- The originals / Cristina Rivera Garza
- Feminism pills / Claudia Piñeiro
- From the soul of a woman
- Isabel Allende
- My weakness: Scattered thoughts on being a woman / Margarita García Robayo
- Strand by strand: My grandmothers' writing / Daniela Catrileo
- I won't mince words / Adelaida Fernández de Juan
- Snake eggs: Reflections on feminism in five movements / Magela Baudoin
- Consent: Sign on the dotted line for desire? / María Moreno
- Woman at the wheel / Ave Barrera
- Fissures and tides: An account of women from a southwestern Caribbean island / Cristina Bendek.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781917260169
- 1917260164
- OCLC:
- 1533773222
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000266420
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