ReadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2025

La Lucha

Latin American Feminism Today

Carolina Orloff editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Charco Press

Published:7th Oct '25

Should be back in stock very soon

La Lucha cover

From Mexico to Patagonia, the struggle for women's rights in Latin America comes alive in the voices of the artists and activists making the change.

La Lucha gathers the voices of 30 artists, scholars, and activists, from 17 countries, actively engaged in the fight for women’s rights in Latin America. From the patriarchy to femicide, to the inflections of identity embedded in colour, class, and indigenous cultures, their struggle embodies the contested definitions and priorities of feminism. Their solidarity, and tirelessness, has yielded striking, game-changing results in areas as disparate, and as fundamental to women’s lives, as reproductive health, environmentalism, anti-colonialism, and  human rights. With contributors that include Isabel Allende, Selva Almada, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Valeria Luiselli, Lina Meruane, Claudia Piñeiro, and Cristina Rivera Garza, this unprecedented collection is sure to challenge, provoke, and inspire.

"A timely read… essays that illustrate a collective struggle from individual perspectives." —The Economist

"Charco Press’s latest is an incredible collection of essays destabilising traditions of Western feminism through transformative radical ideas." —The Skinny

"With each essay, the definition of feminism and its attendant complications deepens and takes on new valences." —Asymptote

"A landmark anthology that redefines feminism from the global South outward." —Morning Star

ISBN: 9781917260169

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

432 pages