For the final FBC meeting for this academic year, UCL Laws FBC will be reading Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia.
A haunting meditation on the choices of mothers, the legacy of the memories they carry, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them, this is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of America's most tangled, honest, human roots.
Five generations of women, linked by blood and circumstance, by the secrets they share, and by a single book passed down through a family, with an affirmation scrawled in its margins: We are force. We are more than we think we are.
From nineteenth-century cigar factories to present-day detention centres, from Cuba to the United States to Mexico, Gabriela Garcia's Of Women and Salt follows Latina women of fierce pride, bound by the stories passed between them. It is a haunting meditation on the choices of mothers and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their truth despite those who wish to silence them.
You can buy a copy of the book here
UCL Laws Feminist Book Club
The UCL Laws Feminist Book Club brings together staff and students at all levels to talk about books in an informal setting.
We'll meet once a month during term times. You are welcome to drop in on individual sessions, or to attend regularly – whatever works for you.
The UCL Laws Feminist Book Club was set up in 2018 with the aim of creating a strong feminist network within the law school. We invite feminist students (LLB, LLM, and PhD), faculty, and staff to join us for monthly meetings in which we chat informally about a work of female-authored fiction. We have structured the group as a book club because, well, we all like to read – and we believe that it’s important to supplement our work and studies with non-academic reading. It helps to keep us grounded, enriched, and energised. The book club is an inclusive, non-hierarchical, and non-judgmental space open to all genders. Join our newsletter - http://eepurl.com/ibn6Vz.