What is it about?
This book examines sexual violence and gender subordination through a reconstruction of concepts, of films, and of the patriarchal-capitalist social imaginary. I claim that the spaces of subordination of women are beyond the scope of the public sphere: they include a wide range of social and non-political spaces that I critically revise and conceptualize as the topography of spaces of power and subordination (class, gender, race, sexual orientation).
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Why is it important?
The visibility of women, the new feminist movements around the world are enlisting the problematics of violence as one of the most important consequences of women's subordination. Emancipation requires us to understand the lasting power of political and social institutions and how they have constructed a whole vocabulary, thousands of representations, and as a script of male sovereignty. Visibility of the violence, new terms that cope with moral and pyschological harm, and the construction of larger aims at radical transformation are the subjects of this book and of our feminist social imaginary.
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It clarifies why sexual violence belongs to a wider conception of patriarchal and capitalist institutions. The counter-hegemonical perspective offered by the new feminist imaginary must work out through representations of social and political institutions that have not yet been transformed. The public sphere is extended and reshaped by a new conception of how spaces, visibility, and agency must be transformed. Interactive agency, collective awareness of contesting representations in films, practices, and images that still exercise powerful resonance among agents. Constructing a new imaginary will begin to redesing the whole way in which political agency and visibility are the main conditions for transforming our socieites.
Dr. Maria Pia Lara
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
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This page is a summary of: Front Matter, December 2020, JSTOR,
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv19dsxmm.1.
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