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Gender Violence in Twenty-First-Century Latin American Women's Writing (Hardcover)
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Gender Violence in Twenty-First-Century Latin American Women's Writing (Hardcover)
Series: Violence in the Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds
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How do contemporary female authors in Latin America tackle gender
violence in their writings? This book analyses the portrayal of
violence against women in the works of ten contemporary Latin
American female authors: Alejandra Jaramillo Morales, Laura
Restrepo, Ena Lucia Portela, Wendy Guerra, Selva Almada, Claudia
Pineiro, Diamela Eltit, Carla Guelfenbein, Lydia Cacho and Fernanda
Melchor. Governments in Latin America have routinely failed to
protect women from abuse, threats, censorship, repressive policies
on reproduction rights, forced displacement, sex trafficking,
disappearances and femicides, and this book beats a new path
through these burning issues by drawing on the knowledges
encapsulated by sociology as much as the visions articulated by
literature. Through an exploration of works published in the
twenty-first century by women writers from Argentina, Chile,
Colombia, Cuba and Mexico, this volume reconceptualises positions
of privilege and power in the region and provides new readings
about the meaning of gender, sexuality, violence and the female
body in contemporary Latin America. The aim of this book is to
raise awareness of the daily threat of violence against women in
Latin America, underline the importance of the voice of Latin
American women within that daily struggle, and encourage
governments, organisations and institutions in Latin America and
the Caribbean to take gender violence seriously and fight to secure
peace and social equality for all women in the modern world.
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