“When we see the pain, the injustice, the violence that women constantly suffer, an urge to stop it awakes in us, and that is when we become feminists” – Guadalupe Nettel
tells me, “but to ask the right questions and to invite readers to reflect.” Her new novelAt a time when the question of choice surrounding motherhood feels more pertinent than ever, Nettel’s book presents a deeply ambivalent and complex study of whether or not to have children.
I decided to tell it from the friend’s point of view, because I wanted friendship to be at the centre of this novel: more than an intellectual conclusion or a moral duty, feminism comes from empathy. When we see the pain, the injustice, the violence that women constantly suffer, an urge to stop it awakes in us, and that is when we become feminists.
There was always another woman – friend, sister, mother, aunt – to look after the child in case the mother fell ill, had to work, or lacked the psychological conditions. Some women adore children’s company but don’t want to give birth, and collective raising allows them to participate in motherhood without having to be biological mothers. I am not inventing anything new.
GN: In Mexico, 11 girls and women are murdered every day, many out of hatred. This is not just something that we just read about in newspapers, very often it’s a friend’s friend or sibling that has been murdered by her partner and many times these guys are not imprisoned or even put on trial. This impunity gives rise to more crimes and even to a normalisation of it.
“When we see the pain, the injustice, the violence that women constantly suffer, an urge to stop it awakes in us, and that is when we become feminists” –it’s impossible for your biography not to permeate your fiction
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