¿Puede el mundo del arte, con sus razones estéticas universales, declararse al margen de las reglas del régimen patriarcal? ¿Está este campo libre de techos de cristal, mansplaining y estereotipos de género? Nada de eso parece corroborarse cuando se atiende a los números del sistema oficial: las mujeres tienen menos premios, menor presencia en las exhibiciones y ocupan, salvo excepciones, lugares subordinados en las historias del arte. Frente a este escenario, un intenso movimiento de transformación está en marcha. De la mano del activismo feminista y de género, a partir de los años setenta del siglo pasado el arte ofreció herramientas para un imaginario liberador y puso al cuerpo femenino como lugar de expresión privilegiado de una subjetividad en disidencia. Feminismo y arte latinoamericano presenta un panorama teórico y cuantitativo de la escena femenina en las artes visuales y se detiene en la intervención de artistas que contribuyeron a construir una imaginación emancipadora en América Latina. Andrea Giunta recorre en estas páginas la emergencia de nuevos temas –la maternidad, el acoso, la prostitución, los cuerpos divergentes– y nuevas formas de representación, que interpelan no sólo las diferencias entre un arte feminista y un arte femenino, sino también las relaciones de poder inscriptas en los modos de ver y mostrar. Este libro cuenta la historia de una revolución en curso y en ella se propone como una intervención activa desde el conocimiento. Si todavía hoy el universo del arte replica, bajo las formas de la exclusión y la invisibilización, las distintas violencias contra las mujeres, restituir el sentido político del feminismo artístico no significa reponer un conjunto de nombres en un sistema de poder, sino contribuir a la apertura de una comprensión distinta del mundo.

Mixed race studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relations. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological sciences, as well as the humanities, this reader charts the evolution of debates on 'race' and 'mixed race' from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book is divided into three main sections: tracing the origins: miscegenation, moral degeneracy and genetics mapping contemporary and foundational discourses: 'mixed race', identities politics, and celebration debating definitions: multiraciality, census categories and critiques. This collection adds a new dimension to the growing body of literature on the topic and provides a comprehensive history of the origins and directions of 'mixed race' research as an intellectual movement. For students of anthropology, race and ethnicity, it is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of 'racial' thinking across space, time and disciplines.

A major American poet faces her own native land, her own life, and the result is a volume of compelling, transforming poems. The book includes two extraordinary longer works: the self-exploratory "Sources" and "Contradictions—Tracking Poems," an ongoing index of an American woman's life. The poet writes, "In these poems I have been trying to speak from, and of, and to, my country. To speak of a different claim from those staked by the patriots of the sword; to speak of the land itself, the cities, and of the imaginations that have dwelt here, at risk, unfree, assaulted, erased. I believe more than ever that the search for justice and compassion is the great wellspring for poetry in our time, throughout the world, though the theme of despair has been canonized in this country. I draw strength from the traditions of all those who, with every reason to despair, have refused to do so."

From the author of the award-winning GraceLand comes a searing, dazzlingly written novel of a tarnished City of Angels Praised as “singular” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and “extraordinary” (The New York Times Book Review), GraceLand stunned critics and instantly established Chris Abani as an exciting new voice in fiction. In his second novel, set against the uncompromising landscape of East L.A., Abani follows a struggling artist named Black, whose life and friendships reveal a world far removed from the mainstream. Through Black’s journey of self- discovery, Abani raises essential questions about poverty, religion, and ethnicity in America today. The Virgin of Flames, a marvelous and gritty novel filled with indelible images and unforgettable characters, confirms Chris Abani as an immensely talented writer.

This is the standard work on The Global Sexual Revolution. First published in 2012, it is translated into 15 languages and updated for this edition. The new ideology of gender denies the binary structure of human existence as man and woman and overthrows moral limitations of sexuality. This destroys marriage and family as the foundation of culture.