Progressive Women Publishers in Brazil and Argentina: Boitempo and Marea Editorial

Abstract

In this article we will present a brief editorial history of invisible women publishers in Argentina and Brazil, and highlight the symbolic role that Ivana Jinkings (Brazil) and Constanza Brunet (Argentina), creators and managers of Boitempo Editorial (Brazil) and Marea Editorial (Argentina) reflect in the progressive publishing field today. We bring up this discussion, above all, to think about women active in the publishing market, who are often silenced, since we are aware of an editorial history that portrays, for the most part, the trajectory of male editors. However, these female editors presented here, for example, command the largest so-called independent and progressive publishing houses in these countries; they edit and occupy different positions in the "publishing field" (BOURDIEU, 2004). Based on semi-structured interviews conducted with these women and analysing their autobiographical discourse, our question is: what do these women project about themselves in the private/public sense through their narratives and the catalogue of their publishing houses? We believe, a priori, that the final editorial products are one of the facets, an edition of the self through an institutional ethos (AMOSSY; MAINGUENEAU, 2008), of extimacy (PAVEAU, 2020), that is, a validation of the self, of what the publishers edit of themselves through their life narratives.