Description
The Urgency of Living
Book Summary
This work proposes a new framework for action and thought for contemporary feminisms focused on emotionality. Drawing on recent findings in neuroscience and other disciplines, the author makes visible forms of emotional resistance that often go unnoticed in the face of discrimination, oppression, and violence. The book addresses highly topical issues such as development, well-being, human trafficking, and peace, concluding that feminism is inevitable in patriarchal contexts. Feminist emotions are born from the vital urgency of millions of people and guarantee survival and resilience.
What is it about?
The work explores how emotions can become a political tool and a means of resistance against patriarchal structures. The author analyzes the relationship between emotionality and feminism, relying on neuroscientific research to demonstrate that the affective response to injustice is not an individual act, but a form of collective action. Phenomena such as human trafficking, gender-based violence, and development policies are examined from a perspective that integrates ethics, moral philosophy, and the psychology of emotions. The book argues that the urgency with which millions of people live generates a transformative emotional force, capable of sustaining the feminist struggle and ensuring resilience in adverse contexts.
Main themes
- Feminism and emotionality as a tool for political resistance.
- Neuroscience applied to the study of emotions and oppression.
- Gender-based violence, human trafficking, and development policies.
- Relationship between well-being, ethics, and moral philosophy in patriarchal contexts.
- Resilience and emotional survival as forms of collective action.
Who is it recommended for?
This book is aimed at people interested in contemporary feminism, moral philosophy, the psychology of emotions, and gender studies. It is also useful for researchers, activists, and social professionals who seek to understand how emotions can articulate political responses to discrimination and violence. Readers with concerns about human development, applied ethics, and peaceful resistance will find an innovative and rigorously grounded approach in this work.
What this book contributes
- An original theoretical proposal that integrates neuroscience, philosophy, and feminism to understand emotional resistance.
- Conceptual tools to make visible forms of oppression and violence that often go unnoticed.
- An updated analysis of topics such as human trafficking, development, and peace from a feminist perspective.
- Solid arguments demonstrating the inevitability of feminism in patriarchal contexts.
- A reflection on vital urgency as a driver of social change and collective resilience.
Technical specifications
- Author: Langle de Paz, Teresa
- Publisher: Anthropos Editorial
- Language: Spanish
- Subject: Literary essays, development studies, ethics and moral philosophy, violence in society, feminism and feminist theory, psychology: emotions
- Collection: Critical Thinking, Utopian Thinking
- Binding: Paperback
- Publication date: October 2018
- Number of pages: 320
- Weight: 395 g
Editorial assessment
This is a rigorous and timely work that brings a novel perspective to the feminist debate by focusing on emotionality as a political tool. The author combines neuroscientific foundations with philosophical and ethical reflections, offering a deep analysis of complex social phenomena. The book is especially relevant for those seeking to understand emotional resistance as a form of collective action and who wish to explore the connections between development, violence, and feminism from an interdisciplinary approach.