An Argentine Novelist Takes On #MeToo
By
Andrea Moncada
Pola Oloixarac’s latest book highlights problems in the global movement.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on trends to watch in Latin America in 2025. In her latest book, which levels a critique against “progressive feminism,” Argentine novelist Pola Oloixarac recounts an episode of brutal gender violence that took place in her own family. Her great-aunt Ana was beaten to death at her doorstep by her boyfriend, in front of her neighbors, in Lima in 1956. Stories like this one remain common in Latin America—and have galvanized feminist movements to take to the streets. Oloixarac acknowledges the severity of gender violence in Latin...
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