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    • December 2020

      Violencias contra las mujeres. Relaciones en contexto

      by Silvina Alvarez Medina y Paola Bergallo (coords.)

      This work was generated around a common concern for gender-based violence, its meanings, scope and legal strategies to address it, together with the need for a relational approach, attentive to the contexts in which violence takes place. In its first part, some issues related to principles and concepts are introduced, the clarification of which enables a better understanding of violence and contextual analysis to highlight the need to take into account the circumstances surrounding the victims of gender violence. The work also provides a study of masculinities, that is, a look from men, from the masculine position and meaning. Second, through the study of femicide, the criminal policy options that several Latin American countries have opted for, on the one hand, and Spain, on the other, are analyzed. The focus is also on violence against women in relation to their most intimate affective circle, mainly daughters and sons. In the third part of the book, dedicated to sexual violence, rape and the various legal approaches that have accompanied it are analyzed, and its repercussions on armed conflicts are studied. Finally, the fourth part delves into the study of international human rights law on gender and violence, emerging rights and constitutional worldviews. Throughout the articles that we present here, a common thread can be traced that emphasizes questioning the standard legal perspective, inherited from patriarchal models, anchored in the masculine vision of the law. The works gathered in this book propose a longer and more complex look, capable of unveiling social and cultural meanings that go through the bodies and lives of women in situations of violence. This gaze does not only interrogate women and men who are protagonists of conflicts of violence; it goes further, to encompass relationships in context.

    • Fiction

      The Light in Isabel's Eyes

      by Edmée Pardo

      Four characters cross paths in a hospital: a woman about to give birth; a family facing the inexplicable death of one of their own; a man who falls ill; and a teenager persecuted among hundreds of women in an oppressive town. Their life is intertwined with secondary characters with whom they mix as they walk towards their separate destinies. In a violent city in the middle of the desert, death, birth, love, pain, and revenge are joined by the shadow of God or maybe by the shadow casted by his absence. Weaved in a net of actions that develops at full speed through a clean and poetic prose, this is a story that hurts and heals at the same time. This novel speaks of God and Spirit, of inner strength and emptiness, of solitude and communion, also of hope.

    • Crime & mystery
      March 2005

      Desert Blood

      The Juárez Murders

      by Alicia Gaspar de Alba

      An incisive and thrilling mystery that delves into the violent deaths of young women plaguing the U.S. / Mexico border.

    • August 2020

      Baldías

      by Laura Rossi

      After being burned, women's dead bodies are thrown in a wasteland located in a suburb heart. The killers are 'common men', trying to get away with it. Their voices and many others build this novel to show how the indiference of a society makes violence and mistreat a natural thing and becomes a fertile field for impunity.

    • August 2021

      La banda oriental

      by Paloma Vidal

      A girl lives in the little house out back of a mansion in Punta del Este with her aunt and dog. The owners of the house are Brazilians who summer on the Uruguayan coast. The girl spends her afternoons near the black pool in the garden with the dog, while the aunt tends to the owners and their guests. The dog follows her, accompanies her, cares for her. With quirky language taken to the minimal expression, a novel combination of registers and theatrical logic, Paloma Vidal skillfully traps us in a suspenseful story between the magical and the sinister.

    • Children's & YA
      June 2020

      CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

      by Severino Rodrigues, Regina Drummond, Flávia Cortês, Luis Eduardo Matta, Shirley Souza, Luís Dill, Rosana Rios

      Great Russian author, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, wrote a wonderful novel about guilt, taking responsibility and human weakness. Crimes and punishments is a tribute to that literary genius, in which seven authors discuss some very delicate and very contemporary problems. It could happen to any one of us.

    • Fiction

      WHY I CAN'T WRITE

      How to survive in a world where you can’t pay rent, can’t afford to focus, be healthy or to remain principled. Dijana Matković tells a powerful story of searching for a room of her own in the late stages of capitalism.

      by DIJANA MATKOVIĆ

      It is a coming-of-age story for Generation Z. How to grow up or even live in a world where no steady jobs are available, you can’t pay your rent and can’t afford medical or living expenses. Moreover, it touches on how to be a socially engaged artist in such a world, and more so, a woman in a post-me too world? Dijana, a daughter of working-class immigrants, tells the story of her difficult childhood and adolescence, how should became a journalist and later a writer in a society full of prejudices, glass ceilings and obstacles. How she gradually became a stereotypical ‘success story’, even though she still struggles with writing, because she can’t afford a ‘room of her own’. Dijana is a daughter of working-class immigrants, who came to Slovenia in the eighties in search of a better future. The family is building a house but is made redundant from the local factory when Yugoslavia is in the midst of an economic crisis. When her parents get divorced, Dijana, her older sister and mother struggle with basic needs. She is ashamed of their poverty, her classmates bully her because of her immigrant status, but mostly because of her being ‘white trash’. In the local school she meets teachers with prejudices against immigrants, but is helped by a librarian who spots her talent. When Dijana goes to secondary school, she moves in with her older sister who lives in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Her sister is into rave culture and Dijana starts to explore experimenting with drugs, music and dance. At the secondary school, she is again considered ‘the weird kid’, as she isn’t enough of a foreigner for other immigrant kids because she is from the country, yet she isn’t Slovenian enough for other native kids. She falls even deeper into drug addiction, fails the first year of school and has to move back to live with her mother. She takes on odd jobs to make ends meet. Whilst working as a waitress she encounters sexism and sexual violence from customers and abuse from the boss. She finishes night school and graduates. She meets many ‘lost’ people of her generation along the way, who tell her their stories about precarious, minimum wage jobs, lack of opportunities, expensive rent, etc. Dijana writes for numerous newspapers but loses or quits her job, because she isn’t allowed to write the stories she wants or because of the bad working conditions or the blatant sexual harassment. Due to the high rent in the capital, Dijana has to move to the countryside to live with her mother. She feels lonely there, struggles with anxiety and cannot write a second book, because she is constantly under pressure to make a living. She realises that she must persevere regardless of the obstacles, she must follow her inner truth and by writing about it, try to create a community of like-minded people, a community of people who support each other – all literature/art is social.

    • Fiction

      The Reason We Remain

      by Marlen Pelny

      This novel begins with the murder of 14-year-old Etty – and ends with it, too. Just the way that for Heide, Etty’s mother, life is over to a certain extent but, at the same time, beginning again anew. Because: it’s governed by a new rhythm. From now on, Heide will always be half composed of her missing daughter. From now on, her existence will centre on the question of how to go on living. How to get out of bed each day. How to go on living in the apartment that was also Etty’s home. How to remember her laugh, her cheeky answers, her delicate facial features without falling apart. The people Heide can rely on for support are her closest friends. And us. With impressive precision, Marlen Pelny portrays violence where it actually happens: in our immediate vicinity. Writing with clarity but not voyeurism, unsparingly yet not brutally, she tells a finely drawn, complex story of loss and solidarity, of grief and love – of an aftermath. In the end, we are united. In the end, we are many. In the end, this novel is a linguistically powerful revolt: against fatal injustices. Against the violence we encounter on a daily basis and which we try to survive.

    • Literature & Literary Studies
      March 2021

      How to Think Like Ulysses

      What the Classics Can Teach Us about Life

      by Bianca Sorrentino

      What can the Trojan War tell us about women’s empowerment and immigration? What can the myth of Ulysses tell us about human agency when it is pitted against seemingly unsourmountable circumstances? And what about Orpheus? What can his figure teach us about humanity and its relationship with death? We tend to look at the Classics as dusty, as things from the past, something to study in a college course, but the truth is that they are far more modern than we think, and they can shed a marvellous light on what it means to be humans in the 21st century. Written with a charming levity that cleverly masks years of research, How to Think Like Ulysses is a heartfelt plea to rediscovers the literary wonders of the ancient world and to heed their lesson: life in our contemporary world may be very much different from Athens in the 5th century B.C., but perhaps we didn’t change as much.

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