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

by Mara Encarnacin Lpez, Stephen M Hart, Maria Encarnacion Lopez, et al.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855663163
• ISBN13: 9781855663169
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.4"