Toxic loves, impossible futures : feminist lives as resistance

In this collection of essays I establish dialogue with imaginary and real friends like bell hooks, Sarah Ahmed, Leslie Jamison, Lina Meruane, Leanne Simpson, Chris Kraus, Alaíde Foppa, Lorena Wolffer, Sayak Valencia, Pip Day, Veronica González, Eimear McBride, Simone de Beauvoir, Elena Poniatowska, Susan Sontag, Margaret Randall, Arundhati Roy, Marta Lamas, Dawn Paley, Verónica Gago, Simone Weil, Naomi Klein, etc. These reflections incorporate their voices in an urgent attempt to resist the present in their company, in a world in which “a woman’s voice” exists in bodies called in to occupy important positions in corporations, government, cultural and academic institutions, to work in factories,
to join the army, but whose bodies are systematically rendered vulnerable by gender violence and by the double burden imposed on us to perform both, productive and reproductive labor. I am summoning these writers to help me think up systems to undo misogynist social practices and to disarticulate patriarchy’s
submission and denigration tricks against women, elaborating a genealogy of feminist gazes and voices to help me become stronger, rooted. And from there on, to draw a map of our current political-environmental problems and conceive a point of departure to resist collectively. In these texts, “a woman’s voice” parts from
issues of gender, female sexuality and pain, to encompass modernism and capitalism, to discussions of art, film and literature, to the pitfalls of leftist thinking before our current crisis of uprooting and alienation, COVID-19, massive violence and environmental crisis and how they are interlinked, enabled by the denigration of life and human relationships. Indeed, gender and environmental violence originate in the same epistemological site.

* Esta contraportada corresponde a la edición de 2021. La Enciclopedia de la literatura en México no se hace responsable de los contenidos y puntos de vista vertidos en ella.

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