Rita Segato will be responsible for the opening of the Buenos Aires Book Fair

Photo: Jocelina of Carvalho Segato

The Book Foundation, which is responsible for the organizer of the 45th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires to take place in late April and early May, announced today that the anthropologist and writer Rita Segato will be the author in charge of the inauguration the most important literary event of the country.

The act will be the April 25 at 18h in the hall Jorge Luis Borges. Entrance to the opening will be exclusively with special invitation. For the third time in a row, the Fair is inaugurated by a woman. Previous cases were those of Luisa Valenzuela (2017) and Claudia Piñeiro (2018).

Rita Segato, who has gained notoriety in recent years thanks to her contribution to feminist theories and her academic contributions to violence against womenHe studied high school and university in Buenos Aires, graduated in anthropology at UBA and graduated from the Municipal Conservatory "Manuel de Falla" and the National School of Dance.

He then specialized in ethnomusicology at the Inter-American Institute of Ethnomusicology and Folklore of Caracas (Venezuela) and eventually obtained his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Queens & University of Belfast, UK.

During her long career, she has been a researcher at the National Research Council of Brazil, a visiting professor at various PhDs in Latin American universities. In 2019, she inaugurated Chair of uncomfortable thought at the National University of General San Martín.

From different academic sectors related to the struggle of feminisms, it is agreed that Segato is established as a reference word at the international level, finding in recent years a projection throughout the region. Her studies of different types of violence against women and their theories of power in the patriarchal system have been crucial in recent years in gender research.

(Read also: Who is Rita Segato, the voice of feminism)

In this direction, in 2017, he received the Latin American and Caribbean Social Science Prize CLACSO 50 yearsin 2017. Among his books, which appear in the list of the best commercial bookshops in the country, are Theas basic structures of violence; The nation and its others; and Counter-pedagogy of cruelty, recently reissued by Prometero publisher.

"I feel very honored by this invitation to the party of a country of readers like ours, "said Segato. about his score in the famous inaugural address. "A country in which someone can become famous for thinking. A country where the imagination has not been defeated, "he added.

As we mentioned earlier in NEWS, one of the great innovations brought by Rita Segato is lead the discussion on the war between men and women put the axis in the struggle to overthrow the power structures of patriarchy.

Without going further, in the introduction of his latest book, "Counter Pedagogies of Cruelty", he expresses it clearly. also consider men as victims"One of the keys to change will be to talk about the victimization of men through the mandate of masculinity and the harmful body structure of male fraternity. There is badual violence between the bades, and the first victim of the mandate of masculinity are men: forced to comply with the corporate pact and obey its rules and hierarchy since their entry into society.

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