Outstanding personality declared to anthropologist and feminist Rita Segato

The anthropologist, researcher and specialist in gender issues, Rita Segato, declared as a prominent personality of the culture by the legislature of the city. At the ceremony held on Thursday in the Golden Hall of the Parliament of Buenos Aires, the laureate badured that the feminist movement "he reaches his destination".

"I've always wanted to think, write and get the message across, always writing when I wanted to understand something." When I see people holding a book in their hand, I am in the presence of one of the most characteristic scenes of what is happening with feminism in Argentina, "said the author of The war against women, during the demonstration organized by the president of the Peronist bloc, the deputy María Rosa Muiños.

Segato thanked the recognition and recalled that "in 1975, with 23 years, he had gone abroad and had since" obsessed to come back ". During this period, the anthropologist said that she was looking for the answer to the question "How to find the way home"? "What's going on here today tells me that I came back and that I have recovered the place I want in my country and in my city, "she remarked enthusiastically.

With regard to the advancement of the feminist movement in Argentina, he pointed out the arrival of the younger generations. "The girls know how to argue in a dazzling way: after almost 70 years of production, reflection and debate, they take the flags and wear them. much further than wehe stressed.

The gender specialist will occupy a prominent place in the next edition of the Book Fair because she will be in charge of inaugural speech.

"I am very honored by this invitation to the party of a country of readers like ours, a country in which someone can become famous for its reflections. A country where imagination has not been vanquished"he said.