Rita Laura Segato is an Argentine writer, anthropologist and feminist activist best known for her research focused on gender issues in Latin American indigenous peoples and communities, gender-based violence, and the relationships between gender, racism, and colonialism. In her work she develops the notion that gender relations are a field of power, and that it is a mistake to speak of sexual crimes, since these should be considered "crimes of power, of domination, of punishment". She considers that violence against women, as seen in Argentina, is related to the global moment when "ownership is present" in an era of "ownership", which breaks into the collective unconscious in the way men who obey a mandate of masculinity, which is a mandate of power, test their power through women's bodies. In this regard, she points out the link between rape and a demonstration of power: "Rape is not based on sexual desire, it is not the uncontrolled, needy libido of men, it cannot be that because it is not even a sexual act, it is an act of power, of domination, it is a political act." (Rita Segato. Interview given to BBC World) She prefers to talk about gender-based violence than violence against women, she explains, "I prefer to call it that, since the concept of gender was a finding to be able to talk about a structure that organizes and classifies bodies". She considers that gender-based violence has a "calling effect", is "contagious" and can be transformed into spectacle. Regarding the widespread belief that recidivism is unavoidable in the case of the rapist, she believes that "it is obligatory to think that every human being can change. It's really hard sometimes. The conditions must be created for change to happen, conditions that are not currently present." She coined the term femigenocide to describe crimes committed against women that reach the level of crimes against humanity or genocide, and that did not previously have a legal statute.