Gender Violence
According to data from the United Nations, one in three women in the world have experienced physical or sexual violence, and 87,000 women died due to gender-based violence in 2017. Here is a selection of videos of activities about violence against women that have taken place at the CCCB.
Women and Data: Counting Gender Inequalities
Tània Verge Mestre
Within the feminist movement various initiatives are in place to collect data, both quantitative and qualitative, to document gender inequalities and make them count.
Women and Public Space: Violence (ch.2)
Soy Cámara online
On 24 August, a woman on the beach at Nice (a city recently hit by terrorism) was forced to remove her burkini in a public exhibition and humiliation by the forces of security.
Lydia Cacho
Trafficking and gender equality
Lydia Cacho is a journalist and writer, known for his activism as a human rights defender. Investigated and reported on human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of women and children in Mexico and abroad. This work report, which involved representatives of the Mexican political class, ...
Judith Butler
Bodies That Still Matter
How can bodies be recognized when they do not fit the social norm of what bodies should be?
Carolin Emcke
Silence and Emancipation
The journalist and philosopher Carolin Emcke, one of the leading voices in the German intellectual and cultural scene, talks about the links between power and violence, and the need for freedom and desire.
Rita Segato and Gabriela Wiener
The City of Women
Anthropologist Rita Segato considers that the violence suffered by many women is just the cruellest extreme of a system of domination of one half of society over the other that arises in dozens of everyday situations. And that the only possible solution is a new approach to gender in education ...
A Morning with Rita Segato
Debates with Adolescents
In this session with secondary school students, Rita Laura Segato presents her thoughts about sexist violence against women, which she has studied and analysed in terms of its relationship with capitalism and the values on which it is constructed. Rita Laura Segato is professor of Anthropology ...
Kate Bolick and Anna Gabriel
Talk in the Primera Persona 2017 Festival
Kate Bolick, author of the essay Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own (published in Spanish as Solterona. La construcción de una vida propia, Malpaso Ediciones, 2016)—which explores in first person the issues considered in ...