This book is a major and indispensable work for continuing to grow in our understanding of violence. Danú Gontijo opens a new door by exploring and analyzing how gender violence replicates itself, without falling into the trap of attributing it to a mechanical nature of the process, such as the interpretive model that resorts to the idea of ​​contagion. Instead, she insists on the mediation of the imaginary and human fantasy. In doing so, she discovers the idea of ​​mimesis to account for the phenomenon of replication. This is, therefore, a work about desire and its mimetic predicate, situated and examined from the perspective of historical conditions such as coloniality, racism, capitalism, consumerism, the resentful psyche of our time, and, of course, violence and power. I have no doubt that we are facing a work of the utmost importance that will soon find its way into broad circles of feminist criticism, achieving great influence. It constitutes a turning point and a step forward in the understanding of gender violence.

Rita Laura Segato