Gender Violence in Twenty-First-Century Latin American Women's Writing

Contemporary female authors in Latin America tackle gender violence in their writings by exploring the experiences of women and challenging societal norms and power structures.

Format: Hardback
Length: 246 pages
Publication date: 04 March 2022
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

This book delves into 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 consistently failed to safeguard women from abuse, threats, censorship, repressive policies on reproduction rights, forced displacement, sex trafficking, disappearances, and femicides. This book takes a novel approach by drawing on the knowledge encapsulated by sociology as well as the visions articulated by literature to address these pressing issues. Through an exploration of works published in the twenty-first century by women writers from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico, this volume reimagines positions of privilege and power in the region and offers fresh interpretations of gender, sexuality, violence, and the female body in contemporary Latin America.

The primary objective of this book is to raise awareness about the daily threat of violence against women in Latin America, emphasize the critical role of Latin American women in the ongoing struggle, and urge governments, organizations, and institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean to take gender violence seriously and actively work towards securing peace and social equality for all women in the modern world.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781855663169