Marcela Lagarde

Hello everyone, today I would like to talk about an expert in my field. 
Marcela Lagarde is a Mexican academic, author, researcher, anthropologist and feminist activist. She was born in 1948 in Mexico City. She undergraduate degree in ethnology and both a Master's and Ph.D. in Anthropology. During her university studies, she participated in the student uprisings known as Mexico 68. She has been a professor of feminist studies at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM).
Marcela is important for introducing the concept of "femicide" to Latin American audiences. This concept, femicide refers to the abduction, death and/or disappearance of women and girls which is allowed by the state or happens with impunity. She also describes the myth of romantic love as women's captivity and that the fusion of the socially assigned roles of mothers and wives are guaranteeing women to be the eternal caretakes.  
I like the work of Marcela Lagarde because she has been concerned with dismantling the social structure that defines gender roles, especially women, to which she captivates them in specific roles. A book that talks about this topic are  Los cautiverios de las mujeres: madresposas, monjas, putas, presas y locas (1990)