Labrys
Editorial ( en français)
When Labrys, estudos feministas/études féministes, a feminist digital magazine, has been created five years ago, the idea was that it would be a bridge between the feminist francophone academic world and the Brazilian one. For the first five issues, we made an effort to translate all articles from and into both languages (French and Portuguese). Unfortunately, it turned out to be a too heavy task for so few translators working on a voluntary basis, and we therefore decided to present Labrys as a multilingual magazine, where all articles are published in their own original language and permanently on line. They are evaluated by the corresponding reading committee and their authors are university professors and advanced students. Labrys appears among the academic periodical publications listed by the Government institutional CAPES, which judges all Master and PhD. courses in Brazil. This last issue of Labrys opens up to an ignored world, or maybe just unknown one: the women of India, 500 millions human beings, crushed by “sex difference”, inequality, fathomless poverty, sexual exploitation, caste discrimination, family and religious pressures, and such a large multicultural space, where feminists are struggling to change hierarchical relations based on biological sex. The Indian dossier has been organized by Susan Dewey and allows us to get a good, still a quick look at all the realities of India. It is surely a fine introduction for any eager spirit to discover more about Indian women, for any supporting occidental feminist. The “Free dossier” offers a plethora of reflecting thoughts on women: in the cities, agriculture, literature, on bodies, friendship, history and subjectivation process. Feminist reviews and magazines have allowed women to produce and divulgate knowledge on feminine/masculine social constructions, about sexual bodies, the binary world of female/male polarization, social appropriation of women bodies, discrimination based on the biological and all social relations around sex and sexuality. From now on, knowledge will never be the same; that of the inevitable truths, certitudes and evidences. Women and feminist theories have changed the presuppositions of the cognitive, that one which created a dichotomist and unequal world. As it is embracing multiple countries and languages, Labrys gives us an opportunity to make bonds between women and conditions for us to imagine how to start up actions against injustice made to women as such, around the world. Wishing you a good reading! Tania Navarro Swain For the Editors
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