Women Resisting Violence Book Launch

Latin America Bureau and King’s College London are proud to announce the debut work from the WRV collective, 'Women Resisting Violence: Voices and Experiences from Latin America.' To celebrate, we'll be launching the book with an event in London on the evening of 24 November.

There will be wine, drinks, nibbles, installations, copies of the book, and feminist artworks from Lilophilia, who designed the cover art for the Women Resisting Violence book and podcast.

Some of the authors will present the book and discuss, alongside collaborators and a panel of influential voices from organisations such as the Latin American Women's Rights Service, Saferworld, and the Argentina Solidarity Campaign, women's widespread creative responses to gender-based violence.

About the book

Across Latin America, the number of femicides has grown at an alarming rate, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Alongside has come a dramatic increase in domestic violence; loud demands over domestic workers’ rights; increased suffering from and fierce resistance to land-grabbing; increased urban violence; violent discrimination against migrants; and the relentless growth of state control over women’s reproductive rights.

In Women Resisting Violence, case studies and interviews with women leaders from Latin America highlight the multiple and intersecting forms of gendered violence – where race, ethnicity, skin colour, economic status, and other markers combine to identify, discriminate against, and target women. Collecting a chain of voices, we focus on these women’s inspirational strategies for transforming their communities and influencing international laws. Their testimonies underline the importance of culture, commemoration, and the arts in consolidating and amplifying active resistance.

Women’s voices are loud and clear: gendered and intersectional violence is rampant in Latin America. But women are pushing back. As the Mexican proverb boldly states, '‘They wanted to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds.’

Praise for Women Resisting Violence

​​‘This highly accessible book is concerned with one of the most important issues in Latin America today and in the future’

Caroline Moser, University of Manchester/UCL

'A powerful record of grassroots resistance'

Silvia Viñas, Executive Producer and co-host of El hilo podcast

‘Key to understanding how to take the ideals of equality and convert them into policy and action.’

Pamela Zaballa, CEO of No More

‘An excellent insight into gender and intersectionality, including an analysis of the impact of VAWG on women in all their diversity.’

Dr Erika Fraser, Ending Violence against Women and Children Helpdesk

‘This book demonstrates, once again, the significance of the bonds of sisterhood between academic and Indigenous feminists proposing creative forms of resistance and theorizing from the South.'

Rocío Silva Santisteban, Peruvian poet, feminist activist, scholar, and former member of Congress

WRV Collective

The WRV Collective reflects the feminist and collaborative decision-making processes underpinning the writing of this book and the wider project to which it belongs, also comprising a blog, events, and a podcast, which was shortlisted for Best Documentary in the Amnesty International Media Awards 2022.

wrv.org.uk | Contact: [email protected] | Listen to the podcast: www.wrv.org.uk/podcast

Latin America Bureau

Latin America Bureau is an independent publisher and media outlet based in the UK, focusing on struggles for social and environmental justice in Latin America.

lab.org.uk | Books

#WomenResistingViolence

Practical Action Publishing

Practical Action Publishing’s books and journals bridge the gap between research and practice and have been offering world class insight on the global challenges that affect communities around the world for nearly fifty years.

practicalactionpublishing.com | Pre-order WRV