El discurso romántico-masculino sobre la virtud femenina: ventriloquismo travesti, censura literaria y violencia donjuanesca en Montalvo y Mera (Estudios)

El autor revisa el discurso de Juan Montalvo en dos textos de Las Catilinarias y en El Regenerador, señalando las estrategias que emplea para apoyar el control patriarcal sobre la mujer: simula una voz femenina que habla por y para las mujeres, sobre sus propias necesidades y deseos, censura y restringe la creatividad poética femenina, y sanciona a aquellas mujeres rebeldes que cuestionan la autoridad masculina. Señala el autor que, sobre la educación de la mujer, el “liberalismo católico” de Montalvo resulta similar a la ideología conservadora y católica de su enemigo político, el presidente García Moreno. De igual forma, en Ojeada histórico-crítica de la poesía ecuatoriana, Juan León Mera censura la autoría, autoridad y autorización para escribir de dos poetas ecuatorianas (Dolores Veintimilla y Mercedes González de Moscoso), como formas de controlar y vigilar esas mismas subjetividades femeninas “manipulables, impulsivas o pecaminosas”, hace algo similar respecto de la obra de Sor Juana, en Obras selectas de la célebre monja de Méjico Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Por último, en su Geometría moral, Juan Montalvo da un paso más allá, y revela el lado egocéntrico y perverso de la autoridad masculina.

Establishing a community of practice of researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and communities to sustainably manage environmental health risks in Ecuador

The Sustainably Managing Environmental Health Risk in Ecuador project was launched in 2004 as a partnership linking a large Canadian university with leading Cuban and Mexican institutes to strengthen the capacities of four Ecuadorian universities for leading community-based learning and research in areas as diverse as pesticide poisoning, dengue control, water and sanitation, and disaster preparedness. By 2009, train-the-trainer project initiation involved 27 participatory action research Master’s theses in 15 communities where 1200 community learners participated in the implementation of associated interventions. This led to establishment of innovative Ecuadorian-led master’s and doctoral programs, and a Population Health Observatory on Collective Health, Environment and Society for the Andean region based at the Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar. Building on this network, numerous initiatives were begun, such as an internationally funded research project to strengthen dengue control in the coastal community of Machala, and establishment of a local community eco-health centre focusing on determinants of health near Cuenca. Alliances of academic and non-academic partners from the South and North provide a promising orientation for learning together about ways of addressing negative trends of development. Assessing the impacts and sustainability of such processes, however, requires longer term monitoring of results and related challenges.