Book Launch: Gender Violence in 21st Century Latin American Women's Writing

May 5, 2022 | Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre, London Metropolitan University
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Governments in Latin America have consistently failed to protect women from all sorts of dynamics of violence, like male coercion, repressive policies on reproduction rights, forced displacement, sex trafficking, disappearances and femicides.

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 the region. This book beats a new path through these issues by drawing on the knowledges encapsulated by sociology as much as the visions articulated by literature.

The aim of this book is to raise awareness of the daily threat of violence against women in the region, underline the importance of the voice of women within daily life, and encourage governments, organisations, and institutions to take gender violence seriously and fight to secure peace and social equality for all women in the modern world.

 Who: Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre, London Metropolitan University

Where: Online

When: 5 May 2022