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A conversation on feminism, activism and gender-based violence with Argentinian anthropologist Rita Segato

Rita Segato is an internationally renowned anthropologist and feminist writer, born in Buenos Aires. She is a scholar of race, colonialism, gender violence and femicide, areas where she is recognised as one of the most essential feminist thinkers of our time. As explained by Maria Luisa Di Martino, Researcher at Ca' Foscari University, who invited the anthropologist to deliver the lecture ‘Understanding Violence: Politics, Power and the Woman's Body’ at our University, 'Rita Segato is particularly well known for her research focusing on gender issues in indigenous peoples and Latin American communities. Her main thesis is that patriarchy is a system of oppression of the female world unravelled in the socio-cultural customs of our societies'.

Born in 1999, Ca' Foscari student Chiara Vanzan is currently attending the second year of the Master’s degree programme in Comparative International Relations. For her thesis, she is analysing the rise of far-right movements globally using Argentina as a case study. 

In the first episode of the video series “A più voci” (In multiple voices), scholar and student spoke about feminism, activism and gender violence, focusing on the woman's body as a place of control and domination, but also of resistance.