La creación de cultura

Literary Nonfiction. LGBT Studies. "CHICANA LESBIANS is a love poem, a bible, a dictionary, nothing so simple as a manifesto—this book is yet another reason to believe—to believe in the girls our mothers warned us about, brown girls, lesbians, making their own love poems, bibles, dictionaries, manifestoes, reasons to believe."—Dorothy Allison "When I was selling books at a Chicana conference, I noticed book buyers were literally afraid to touch this anthology. I say now what I said then, 'Don't be scared. Sexuality is not contagious, but ignorance is.' If you've ever been curious, been...

La obesidad es una de las enfermedades que causan mayor preocupación a nivel mundial. Esta obra analiza cómo afecta a mujeres adultas de medios socioeconómicos precarios en South Bronx (New York), La Courneuve (París) y Lomas del Sur (Guadalajara). Al contrastar las políticas públicas antiobesidad- a través de un abordaje socioespacial con las formas de alimentarse y de habitar se comprueba la existencia de tensiones que van de lo sanitario a lo policial.

Compilación de los textos premiados en la XVII edición del Concurso Internacional de Ensayo "Pensar a Contracorriente" cuyo propósito es reconocer y difundir el pensamiento crítico sobre los problemas y desafíos más acuciantes del mundo contemporáneo, desde perspectivas de amplio sentido anticolonial y antiimperialista que contribuya a articular una teoría política, económica y jurídica emancipadora, comprometido con los asuntos cruciales del medioambiente y contra los efectos devastadores del modelo capitalista hegemónico, en el orden material y espiritual. Este concurso es...

Success didn't come easily to award-winning Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro. He experienced constant rejections in auditions for roles when he first started to pursue an acting career. It wasn't until he moved to Los Angeles that he started getting parts, starting with small ones in films like Big Top Pee Wee and eventually leading to a breakout role in The Usual Suspects. When he won an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in the movie Traffic, he was only the third Puerto Rican American to win an acting Oscar. Read all about del Toro in this full-color...