Jelke Boesten is Professor of Gender and Development at the Department of International Development, King’s College London. She writes about gender-based violence in war and in peace, post conflict justice, and memory and the arts in Latin America, with particular focus on Peru. 

Andrea Espinoza is a feminist researcher focused on women’s and Indigenous people’s rights in Latin America, particularly in Ecuador and the Andean region. She is lecturer in War Studies, King’s College London, and a postdoctoral fellow at University of Exeter with a project enquiring how socialism shapes sexual and reproductive health rights in Latin America, particularly in Ecuador and Peru. Her PhD thesis looked at Indigenous women’s path through violence in plurilegal Ecuador.

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Women Resisting Violence: Voices and Experiences from Latin America

Introduction

Chapter 1. ‘They wanted to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds’: Resisting intersectional and gendered violence against women in cities – Cathy McIlwaine and Moniza Rizzini Ansari

Chapter 2. ‘Care for those who care’: Domestic workers fight back against violence – Marilyn Thomson

Chapter 3. ‘It is a very tough fight’: Abortion as a battleground over women’s rights in Latin America – Jelke Boesten

Chapter 4. ‘Violence on our lands, violence on our bodies’: Women resisting land grabbing and environmental violence – Patricia Muñoz Cabrera

Chapter 5. ‘I have rights and I am free’: Resisting gendered intersectional violence against Latin American migrant women – Cathy McIlwaine

Chapter 6. ‘They cannot erase our memory’: Commemoration, violence, and the arts – Louise Morris and Jelke Boesten

Conclusions and Recommendations

Appendix: Women Resisting Violence, the multilingual podcast

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