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La Lucha — Latin American Feminism Today by Carolina Orloff

$19.95

From Mexico to Patagonia, the struggle for women's rights in Latin America comes alive in the voices of the artists and activists making the change.

La Lucha gathers the voices of 30 artists, scholars, and activists, from 17 countries, actively engaged in the fight for women’s rights in Latin America. From the patriarchy to femicide, to the inflections of identity embedded in colour, class, and indigenous cultures, their struggle embodies the contested definitions and priorities of feminism. Their solidarity, and tirelessness, has yielded striking, game-changing results in areas as disparate, and as fundamental to women’s lives, as reproductive health, environmentalism, anti-colonialism, and  human rights. With contributors that include Isabel Allende, Selva Almada, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Valeria Luiselli, Lina Meruane, Claudia Piñeiro, and Cristina Rivera Garza, this unprecedented collection is sure to challenge, provoke, and inspire.

From Mexico to Patagonia, the struggle for women's rights in Latin America comes alive in the voices of the artists and activists making the change.

La Lucha gathers the voices of 30 artists, scholars, and activists, from 17 countries, actively engaged in the fight for women’s rights in Latin America. From the patriarchy to femicide, to the inflections of identity embedded in colour, class, and indigenous cultures, their struggle embodies the contested definitions and priorities of feminism. Their solidarity, and tirelessness, has yielded striking, game-changing results in areas as disparate, and as fundamental to women’s lives, as reproductive health, environmentalism, anti-colonialism, and  human rights. With contributors that include Isabel Allende, Selva Almada, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Valeria Luiselli, Lina Meruane, Claudia Piñeiro, and Cristina Rivera Garza, this unprecedented collection is sure to challenge, provoke, and inspire.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Carolina Orloff, is originally from Buenos Aires and now based in Edinburgh. She is an experienced translator and researcher in Latin American literature, who has published extensively on Julio Cortázar as well as on Latin American literature, politics and translation theory. In 2016, after obtaining her PhD from the University of Edinburgh and working in the academic sector, Carolina co-founded Charco Press where she acts as publishing director. She is the co-translator of Jorge Consiglio’s "Fate" and of Ariana Harwicz’s "Tender", "Feebleminded" and "Die, My Love". This latter title was longlisted for the Booker International Prize in 2018 and has now been adapted for the screen in a major production directed by Lynne Ramsay, produced by Martin Scorsese and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. In its short life, Charco Press has received several awards and nominations, including Creative Edinburgh Start-Up of the Year (2018), the British Book Award - Scottish Regional Prize (2019, 2020 and 2021), and the shortlistings to the Booker International Prize of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s "The Adventures of China Iron", "Not a River" by Selva Almada, and "Elena Knows" by Claudia Piñeiro (2020, 2022, 2024). Carolina herself was named ‘Emerging Publisher of the Year (2018)’ by the Saltire Society. In 2023, she was also asked to be part of the jury for the prestigious Alfaguara Prize for Literature in Spanish and for the TA First Translation Prize. She is the editor of LA LUCHA (2025), an unprecedented collection of essays on contemporary Latin American feminism.