María Marcela Lagarde and Rivers (Mexico City, 1948) is an academic, anthropologist and Mexican researcher, representative of Latin American feminism. She is the author of numerous articles and books on gender studies, feminism, human development and democracy, power and autonomy of women, etc.He is a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In his youth, Lagarde was a member of the Communist Party. He stood for election as an independent candidate in the lists of Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and was elected deputy in the Mexican Federal Congress between 2003 and 2006. During the legislature highlighted his work on behalf of women's rights.He coined the term to describe the situation femicide in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and managed the creation of a Special Commission on Femicide in Congress to investigate the murder of women in Ciudad Juárez. He directed the Research Diagnostic femicide in Mexico, for which it was discovered that femicide is not unique to Ciudad Juarez.He promoted the crime of femicide in the Federal Penal Code and the General Law on Access of Women to a Life Free of Violence law in force in Mexico since February 2, 2007. The title of his dissertation is The captivity of the women: madresposas, nuns, sluts, dams and crazy