Coral Herrera Gómez (born 1977) is a Spanish feminist writer and communicator based in Costa Rica, known for her critique of the concept of romantic love and her contributions to queer studies.
Education
Coral Herrera holds a degree in Humanities and Audiovisual Communication from the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. She received her doctorate in Humanities and Communication from the same university with a thesis on romantic love in the West and its relation to capitalism, patriarchy and democracy. She examined the sociocultural construction of reality, gender and romantic love; how the West builds emotions through symbols, myths and rites; and how romantic love perpetuates capitalism, patriarchy and democracies.[1]
The main theme of her work is the critique of romantic love from a gender and queer perspective.[4] She argues that romanticism is a product of patriarchy and that it plays a fundamental role in the binary and hierarchical construction of gender inequality.[5] Furthermore, she states that there are different ways of understanding and experiencing love that are more liberating and satisfying than traditional ones.[6][7][8][9]
Published books
Más allá de las etiquetas: hombres, mujeres y trans (2010).[10]
La construcción sociocultural del amor romántico (2011).[11]