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Engineering Without Borders of the Basque Country (ISF - MGI), we are an NGO that develops its activity in the heart of university and in intrenational cooperation for development. We aim to involve people of different studies, experiences and cultures, into a Sustainable Human Development filosophy in which science and technology serve to social and emotional ends, towards wellbeing and in harmony with nature. We are comitted to a transforming education that questions the stereotypes under which we have been educated, the recognition hierarchy of the different disciplines, the social structure under which the paths that have brought us to present have been moulded, and ultimately, the educating system. We aim for a participative education, where comprehension has to do with an inner transformation of the person, and whose work is based on solving people's real problems, with the purpose of encouraging a science and technology at the service of people. With this purpose we have published Aplicación del Enfoque de Género en Proyectos TFG y TFM (Applying a Gender Perspective on End of Degree and End of Masters Reseach Papers), which aims to be a practical guide to afront investigation with a gender perspective. In the same we enphasise the areas in which ISF-MGI works: science and technology, university and international cooperation for development, although it could be valid for any discipline. With this guide we offer some clues on how to put on our "purple glasses" and collaborate in trnasforming the university through a feminist point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is part of the proposal given by Rivera Beiras in this journal in 2016: the global critical criminology. A possible epistemological rupture in the discipline that implies expanding its limits of study and not committing the errors and forgetfulness of the past. On this basis, this paper aims to justify the importance of feminist methodology in the way of making and understanding this new criminological trend. A methodology, or rather, diverse feminist characteristics that, as an attempt to assert, can be considered indispensable in the ways of denouncing and making visible social harms or structural violence and making memory. Therefore, this paper will cover the historical role of women in the discipline, will address some of the proposals and contributions in defense of the satisfaction of human needs and will try to reflect empirically this position through a case study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the gender agenda has permeated all policy areas and has gained relevance through the constant work of organisations that have succeeded in making issues and challenges visible. This paper examines the interaction between international politics and the gender agenda in Argentina during the presidency of Alberto Fernández (2019-2023). Based on a triangulation of information gathered from interviews, official documents, and news reports, the paper aims to analyse, in the context of recent foreign policy, what kind of decisions are linked to the gender agenda, and at the same time, what international projection the gender policies implemented at the local level have. We propose that the gender agenda has opened up a space in Argentine foreign policy in a short period and that it has done so mainly based on the country’s trajectory in the international sphere linked to human rights and the discussion of inequalities in the world. The creation of the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity has been crucial, projecting the country into global gender debates in an institutionalised way. Although concrete policies are developing in some cases, the agendas in this dual track demonstrate that these profound social demands have come to the state to stay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Behaviours that deviate from social norms are often labeled as scandalous, especially if their protagonists are women. In the 19th century, the hegemonic social model was that of separate spheres (public/private). However, some women manifested behaviours that defied tradition. Whether in their private or domestic life, in their activity in the cultural world, at university, in the workplace, and even in politics, they caused scandal and rejection. These behaviors were sometimes condemned by public morality and even by legislative and judicial authorities. This paper analyzes --through literary, newspaper, legislative, and judicial sources-- how nineteenth-century Spanish society received these changes, whether it accepted or opposed them, and how they influenced the model of the new woman and the debate on the woman question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditionally, the representation of women in advertising has been based on social stereotypes. This paper aims to analyze how women have been represented in Spanish TV commercials in the last fifteen years, through a content analysis of the winning commercials in Los Anuncios del Año contest. The results show that, although the role and context in which women are represented have changed considerably, the presence of non-normative bodies, skin colors, genders and sexualities is still anecdotal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Feminism Movements dating back to antiquity, even before, because query the violence against women might refer back to the beginning of humanity. There are different times in the feminist movement around the world. In recent decades, this new movement has been gradually expanding. We are talking about transfeminism. In this paper, we analyze the fight of trans women that develop a vision of tansfeminism, from a social and political positioning, fighting against a political establishment which has tried to avoid their participation in social, economical, and political areas. Indeed from medical, psychological and psychiatric fields it has been developed a vision of trans people related to pathological aspects with a big effect on a binary and heteropatriarchal society. However, these movements are still fighting, seeking recognition of trans women. Because trans rights movements are not going against feminism but against the hegemony of cisheteropatriarchy and gender binarism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the play Carnes tolendas. Retrato escénico de una travesti, starring the award-winning Argentinean actress and writer Camila Sosa Villada and directed by María Palacios. From the perspective of Theatre Studies, we analyze the possibility of the play to produce scenes of equality in terms of Jacques Rancière (2010; 2012). For this purpose, we observe how the performance is part of the crisis of the character (Ryngaert, 2013) in virtue of the fact that the construction of the staging consists on multiple textualities that are identified and reconstructed. We delve into the description and analysis of the construction of voices (Jolly and Moreira da Silva, 2013) and corporealities (Fischer-Lichte, 2011) that stage different materials, including dramatic texts, songs, biographical accounts and openings for dialogue with the audience. On stage, Sosa Villada summons numerous bodies: the bodies of violent men from the family and police universe, the bodies of fragile women, the broken and worn bodies of García Lorca's women, her own trans body and even her own old body. The stage constructs and deconstructs representations of bodies and voices in the rhapsodic logic that stitches fragments together in contemporary theatre. The dramaturgy of the stage opens up the possibility for spectators to go through an experience that gives voice to an invisible history and to be dazzled by the poetic capacities of the performer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a decolonial feminist geopolitics of Venezuelan migration to Colombia, with Venezuelans fleeing the socialist Bolivarian Revolution and then facing discrimination and violence upon settling in capitalist Colombia amid its failing peace process context. Conflicts over migration and nationality permeate our global order of sovereign nation-states, both in north-south migrations and across the global south, while the feminisation and racialisation of migrants divides the subaltern class and facilitates capitalist exploitation. However, this paper elucidates migrants’ inter-national solidarities and grassroots peace struggles. Community organisers along the Colombia-Venezuela border – the women’s empowerment organisation Tejedores de Paz and youth leadership foundation Horizonte de Juventud – unite impoverished internally-displaced Colombians and Venezuelan immigrants to create resistance territories against xenophobia, patriarchy, and poverty. Illustrating the utility of the methodology of decolonial feminist geopolitics, I trace the reconfiguration of the spirit of sociopolitical revolution in South America through migrants’ emergent form of feminist non-state socialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Centered in ecosocialist and ecofeminist perspectives, this paper examines the negative impact of extractivism as an economic activity that removes a huge number of natural resources and evaluates how global capital's ecological management, which I call "greening," has developed in Central and South America. Three questions are addressed: how the regional and local network on the governance of nature in Latin America has been organized; why extractivism strikes women hardest; and to what extent and how movements against extractivism have become involved in contesting global trends as well as national and local policies supporting them. The paper exposes the United Nations as a key force in the permanent model of colonialism, economic dependence, patriarchy, and geopolitical power characterizing extractivism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the discursive strategies of Mexican digital media used to portray the actions and protagonists of the feminist protests in the context of the current administration of the Mexican federal government, known as "The 4T" ("The Fourth Transformation"). It reviews the coverage of feminist protests on emblematic dates (International Women's Day, Global Day of Action for the Legalization of Abortion, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) of five digital media during the first three years of the 4T (2019-2021) from a Critical Discourse Analysis (cda) approach. The results reveal how these strategies reconfigure the object of the protest and create two opposite hubs of significance: either to validate or to sanction women's actions in the public space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditionally, non-cognitive values (political, class, religious, etc.) have been considered to negatively influence science. From feminism, gender biases and prejudices have been particularly criticized. However, people engaged in science are not isolated, but develop their activity in a specific sociohistorical context. As such, they may belong to different communities: the scientific, one in whose paradigm they have been educated, but also to other communities, like religious, political, etc. In this paper I show, with three examples, how belonging to one of these communities and their non-cognitive values (in this case socio-political ones such as feminists), can contribute to re-evaluate the available evidence and improve our hypotheses and theories, challenging old -- and new -- prejudices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using a case study, this paper focuses on the possibilities for a male adolescent to reflect, question and make ruptures on his own exercises of violence and on the interpellations he has experienced with women and feminism. Despite the negative consequences it entails, the repetition of rigid male gender roles and male mandates associated with violence, is often maintained as part of a male identity marked by dominance. However, gender socialization, as a process in continuous construction, opens the possibility for male adolescents to question the rigid learning acquired in childhood. It is concluded that adolescents who exercise violence can question themselves and break with previously acquired mandates associated with violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to reflect upon the principal difficulties, challenges or ‘headaches’ that doing feminist research in conflict and post-conflict contexts can involve. Each of the authors has conducted a very different study. One, on the role of local women’s organizations and activists in peacebuilding; the other, on the disarmament and reintegration of combatants and the impact of this process on the reproduction of violence. While one of us is a woman, the other is a man. While one studies feminist activism, the other focuses mainly on masculinities in the military. While one has researched in Kosovo, the other has done so in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Based on these two research processes, we reflect on debates over epistemological and practical issues such as reflexivity, positionality of the researcher, access, secrecy and silence in the research process, power relations in the field and ethical dilemmas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a didactic proposal to be applied in the second cycle of basic education in Chile, in which a feminist geographical perspective is integrated into the approach to some socioenvironmental conflicts in Latin America. This is the result of an investigation focused on the articulation between geography teaching, feminism, and socioenvironmental conflicts in the context of the Chilean curriculum. To achieve this aim, some theoretical discussions are developed around feminist geography, socioenvironmental conflicts, and geographical education. Next, a didactic proposal addressing different socioenvironmental conflicts is presented. Finally, some initial conclusions are shared regarding the potentialities and challenges to be tackled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper propose a recovery of the natural law category, from the contributions of feminist theology. The problem of the natural law that structures and bases the theological ethics of the Catholic magisterium, was interwoven in time and its great systematizer was Saint Thomas Aquinas. Feminist theology, arising from feminist theories, supports as a critical principle the promotion of the full humanity of women and assumes that the texts and traditions of the Christian community or the marks of their reception throughout history, function from of a misconception of women. This has established for them an ethos based on a static and essentialist vision of their nature. Feminist theology is aware of the need to reflect from an egalitarian anthropology that includes and makes women participate in the human good in the same way as men, and at the same time allows to visualize the different ways in which men and women experience their lives. This incarnated reflection on the goods to which we are directed and the discovery of the necessary means to achieve them integrates the understanding of natural law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research is to provide a grounded critique of the conception of disability developed by crip theory. This theory is a radicalisation of the social model that claims that everyone has a disability to some degree because no one fully fits in the arbitrary social norm of full functioning. The method employed in this paper begins with a hermeneutic reading of the crip literature and continues with a refutation of its arguments. We conclude that the dissolution of the category "disability" into a fluid continuum results in the theoretical and legal erasure of disability. From a biopsychosocial model, we argue that disability has an objective material basis that must be contemplated in order to claim rights and public policies. Criticism of the crip theory is a new topic in scientific research and of great interest due to the growing incidence of this constructivist approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the newly created role of the gender editor that some media have started introducing in newsrooms with a double goal: to include the gender perspective in news coverage and to claim equal working conditions. This paper analyzes six newspapers, legacy and digital natives, from Spain and the United States. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with five gender editors to understand the responsibilities attributed to this new role as well as and the causes of their creation, both from a social and an economic perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following research performs a critical review of 1872's Martina Barros translation of The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill. The main interest of this paper is to understand the objective of translating this text in the context of late 19th Chilean century, the linguistic changes the author chose in her translation due to her points of view, and the fact of a 22-year-old woman becoming a pioneering translator of a foundational feminist text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Punk is a counterculture movement opposed to the dominant system and culture, with antifascist, antisexist ideologies and principles of equality. In terms of hardcore punk, in 1991, arises the North American band Bikini Kill, object of this work, which in its compositions addresses themes with feminist, political and denunciation. In this paper, music is seen in its social dimension, as a producer of identity and representative of the socio-historical context. The aim was to analyze the band's songs, identifying the feminine perspective and it's social implications, to understand the identity of women in that context. The methodology used was the bibliographical-documental analysis of the songs, texts and materials produced on punk and feminism. The compositions were related to the socio-historical context in which they were written and sung, considering Lev Vygotsky's historical-social approach to art and its social role, and feminist theorists like Judith Butler. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In light of advances in research on nonformal education (NFE), this paper examines the experience of Mayan women from the community of Canicab, in the municipality of Acanceh (Yucatán, Mexico). The objective was to understand the levels of shared agency in an NFE activity performed in a context characterized as an attempt to produce conditions of critical interculturality. The research employs a methodology of feminist-activist ethnography. The NFE activities that the women involved took part in dealt with issues relating to women's rights, education, and heritage, and led to the organization of the First Meeting of Mayan Women in Canicab. The findings show a high level of shared agency among women from Canicab and their external partners. The results were discussed with the women who participated in order to help them improve their educational and organizational endeavors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to report the experience lived in the Continued Technical Counseling, from the use of the Agro-ecological Notebooks in the scope of the Pro-Semi-Arid project, coordinated by the Development and Regional Action Company, of the State of Bahia, in partnership with the International Fund for Agricultural Development. The work had, among other objectives, to intervene in the problem of unequal social relations between men and women, trying to promote the active participation of women in development. It was conducted by the technical assistance team of the Socio-Environmental Assistance Service to the Countryside and the City, with female farmers from six rural communities in the municipality of Casa Nova, State of Bahia, Brazil, during a one-year period. The methodological process was carried out in three distinct and interdependent steps: a) presentation of the Agroecological Notebooks to the women farmers using the methodology called Learning Rounds; b) application of a socioeconomic and political participation questionnaire in order to know the profile of these women farmers; and c) construction of the Sociobiodiversity Map. As a result, it was possible to elaborate an analysis of the economic relations, both monetary and non-monetary experienced by the women farmers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the main contributions of the special issue "Social movements, activisms and resistances from the school of the Izquierdas Journal. The presentation is divided into three blocks. First, the contemporary global historical and educational context in which the papers are set is presented, a context marked by the tension between the role of education as a reproducer or generator of resistance to the dominant social order. The 18 articles that make up the monograph are presented below and the two thematic axes into which the special issue is organized are described: (1) Practices of resistance and activism within the school space and (2) Social movements, resistances and activisms outside the school space. Finally, we point out some considerations that we draw from the reading of the theoretical and empirical material presented to the special issue, composed of highly relevant voices from different geographies and traditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an exploratory work with descriptive analysis of more than nine hundred women accompaniments by Socorristas of La Pampa between 2015 and 2020. First of all, the article introduce the unique Socorristas device that allows to go through its feminist methodology of situated approach. Then, advance in the analysis on a selection of social, cultural, motivational, relationship, biographical data on the women accompanied in their decision process. The intention is to investigate, and interpret from a feminist perspective, sensitive variables that are part of their daily life, showing that decisions, especially related to motherhood and abortion, are complex, multidimensional and collective constructions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to discuss how the concepts denominated by the term casamento civil translate the identity (ies) of woman from its institution in 1890 to 2002, when the last change on the rights of women occurred in the context of Brazilian marriages. To do so, we are based on studies on cultural identity in postmodernity (Silva et al. 2012; Hall 2001; among others), relating them to the forms of symbolic domination (Bourdieu 2016), to feminism (Miguel and Biroli 2014) and to the issue of language in the feminist perspective (Figueiredo 2013). Thus, we observe that the conceptual evolution of the term casamento civil has translated different identities of women over the years (from "submissive to husband" to "equal to man") in the specific context of Brazilian Civil Law. Despite this change, we conclude that there are other forms of domination, which are the result of machismo and patriarchy that have sustained (and still sustain) relations in our society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to investigate a federal bill pending analysis in the Brazilian Federal Congress - the 5069/2013 bill - which seeks to criminalize further women's capacity to control issues relating to their sexual health in the country. By analyzing this bill, as well as the political discourses surrounding its proposal and the current arguments for its approval, I seek to highlight the social and political roles attributed by it to Brazilian women, focusing on the implications of the adoption of the nationalist discourse of the bill in official state discourse, should it become law, especially with regards to what the nationalism literature refers to as the "biological and cultural reproduction of the nation," as well as the impact that these new definitions have on Brazilian women's citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper interrogates to what extent the gender component of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Support Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reaffirms the post-political condition of climate change. By analysing the incorporation of gender in the NDC Support Programme and its articulation in Colombia's Low-Carbon Development Strategy, the study exposes the strategic, epistemological, and normative risks of advancing feminist ideas within mainstream institutional frameworks. Thus, this paper shows the opportunities and challenges of dislocating the political and epistemological boundaries of climate change policies by promoting feminist ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper offers a picture of feminist theology from the perspective of its transmissibility, both in the context of mainstream theological knowledge and in the agora of the new generations. The persistent invisibility of these studies, now extremely vast, leads to investigate the mechanisms of the transmission of knowledge in the sacral context and the resistances encountered there. Although aimed at offering useful ideas for discussion rather than exhaustive data, the contribution cannot exempt itself from a synthetic reconstruction of the historical and geo-ecclesiastical contexts in which the TF (s) develop, the categories from which they are processed and the main acquisitions in the field biblical, historical and dogmatic. The conclusion highlights some issues (comparison with colleagues, relationship between academic contexts and practices, postfeminist inclusiveness as an advantage and as a risk), but also expresses the belief that the feminist theological approach is an important resource for the theology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The gender its a concept form the social discussions and must be form the discussions in organization studies in Mexico. In this paper it Will be developed a review about the research in relation with the gender in the organization studies in Mexico and propose an agenda. We are wondering to know ¿Wich is the context link to gender in Mexico? To define this ¿Wich is gender studies? To this point review the diferente topics in organziation studies and gender in another conuntries, to talk about Mexico. At the end we propose topics to think about the importance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we argue that books materialize cultural values and constitute a field of political and social dispute. We disregard the idea of typographic transparency and emphasize its semantic dimension, in order to understand the use of typography in book covers. Thus, we identified contrasts in common sense gender performativity and performativity present in feminist book covers. Finally, we realized a survey with women regarding semantic values assigned, firstly, to letterforms alone and, then, to letterforms in designed covers of five contemporary feminist books. Based on the survey results mainly made of semantic differential scales, we present the variety of confluences and divergences of interpretations of letterforms. Despite the diversity of results, none of the covers leans towards the hegemonic gender performativity staged in common sense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I examine a number of feminist theoretical contributions on the notion of "property in the body", analyzing both critical versions and alternative proposals highlighting the need to retrieve this concept from the liberal paradigm. Firstly, I focus on conceptions of property in the body that different authors elaborate from a feminist theoretical perspective. Secondly, I explore the meanings that this concept acquires at a political level, being present in many of the claims and debates of the feminist movement, such as the right to abortion or the freedom to exercise sex work. The hypothesis that guides this article is that feminist theory re-signifies this concept, identifying its limitations and formulating new approaches. Nevertheless, when emplaced in political arenas, this notion has direct implications on women's bodies by being framed within hegemonic neoliberal paradigms, whose property lexicon is often coupled with commercial logics. Consequently, feminist vindications on the self-control of women's bodies faces the burdens of conceiving the body as of a private property and absolute right to be unlimited used in any activity, even lucrative, neglecting the contextual subordinations these activities unfold. In this manner, feminist demands addressing the selfappropriation of women's bodies are commonly aligned with theoretical and political understandings of the neo-liberal paradigm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Water has often been linked to femininity in various cultures. This has resulted in a profusion of symbols. Sirens, the figure of Melusine, as well as ondines, have all been relevant figures, associated, for the most part, with a threatening view of the feminine. However, romanticism and then surrealism would subvert such an idea: by linking women to that which is liquid, feminine figures were endowed with redeeming powers. Western feminism, especially that which postulates difference, has employed such an involvement between the feminine and the fluid to critically re-think the role of femininity within the symbolic universe and, stemming from there, to put forth other possibilities of conceptualization and representation. This paper explores some of the aquatic figures present in four works by German-speaking women writers: Ingeborg Bachmann, Irmtraud Morgner, and Yoko Tawada. Figures associated with the aquatic medium are central to all of them, and are deployed to address issues of identity, power, language, and writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I analyze the figure of the bridge and its key role in the development of Woolf's arguments in Three guineas. I will argue that the bridge symbolizes the notion of point of view elaborated by the author: a situated and differentiated perspective constructed from the experiences of women. I will argue that a different experience results into the construction of a non-hegemonic, different point of view that provides an "other" knowledge, the knowledge of outsiders. As a consequence, the unsolvable dilemmas as seen from the dominant perspective can be resolved if they are approached from the perspective of outsiders, which has epistemological and axiological implications. I will also argue that these ideas are to be found decades later in contemporary feminism, both as acknowledged legacies and through unexplored affinities. Finally, I will showcase thematic and methodological affinities between Woolf's approach, Anglo-Saxon feminist epistemologies and those of radical women of color in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to reflect on linguistic sexism, a kind of discrimination that has women as an object and language as an instrument. Sexist language either ignores women, or treats them as men, or represents them as an exception; such a use of language, which excludes or minimizes some social subjects, linguistically represents their self-denial and contributes to the permanence of common prejudices. The article analyzes two aspects of linguistic sexism: some asymmetries between masculine gender and feminine gender in the Spanish language; as well as some discriminatory linguistic expressions found in academic documents in the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico that hide or diminish the professional or student image of woman. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decades of the XXth Century and the early years of the XXIst Century there has been unparalleled development in the field of science and technology; yet the dissemination of misleading pseudo-scientific content has proliferated with the advent of digital media. Through a quantitative analysis, the paper analyzes The Goop Lab (Netflix, 2020), the informative series on alternative therapies conducted and produced by actress, entrepreneur, and influencer Gwyneth Paltrow, and aimed at an eminently female audience. The aim is to show how the business and transmedia bet of goop, a brand created by Paltrow around the lifestyle (which covers nutrition guidelines, therapies of oriental spirituality, beauty products, exercise, sexual advice ...), proposes an aspirational discourse based on an implicit promise of physical and/or psychological. It is concluded that this space appropriates the rhetorical strategies of scientific discourse as well as feminist postulates in order to obtain social validation and increase the audience and sales of its products and treatments. Finally, a taxonomy of the pseudoscientific rhetorical resources is made in order to promote an efficient and responsible use in the transmission of media informative contents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Comic strips have often been avenues of cultural, social, and political expression. A strip born in Argentina during the 1960s, Mafalda, became a worldwide phenomenon emblematic of the struggling urban middle classes and the challenges faced by women. Employing incongruity theory with a feminist lens, this paper analyzes Mafalda within its sociopolitical and cultural context. The analysis suggests the comic strip contained the following four prominent themes: women's rights; patriarchy and education; mundane domesticity; and Argentine class system and the bourgeoisie. The study has theoretical implications for media scholars who study the use of humor as a persuasive strategy and the role of satire in political communication. It also has practical implications for feminists and social justice activists who seek new ways to engage potential sympathizers to their causes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, you will find a series of theoretical and political elements for understanding, debate and the study of diversity based on the views of activists, theorists, and theoreticians who have shared their reflections and experiences. The document is organized in eleven sections addressing the following topics: The contributions of the Feminist theory and the concept of the body as a zone of dispute, the pathologization of the body, pathologization and diversity, the pathologization of transsexuality, biopower or biopolitics and their relationship with diverse communities, the acronym LGBTI and its controversy: are they important to define and self-recognize, represent a real inclusion?, definitions according to the international legal framework, discrimination by sex orientation, identity and expression, some ideas about labels and categories of identification of sexual diversity, a section on Eve Kosofsky's proposal on understanding diversity and a series of final reflections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes an analysis of the representation of the woman in the music video directed by the American film-maker Diane Martel, famous for its works for a large number of record industry stars. So we propose to focus the woman as an audiovisual creator, from the work of Diane Martel. This paper takes a sample of the latest five music videos directed by Diane Martel for a female solo artist, to run a textual analysis in the audio-visual text from a methodology created for this paper, from the contributions of previous academic works in the area. The sample was made by reasoned decision. The main objective of this analysis is to evaluate the presence of stereotypes in the representation of the woman in the selected sample to determinate if the content is sexist or not. In this way, we pretend to identify if the responsibility in the creation of a music video by a woman film-maker maintain the usual gender stereotypes in the music video or introduce some innovation on this matter. The preview works about the research of the woman in the music video are from Sedeño, Rodríguez- López & Caldeiro Pedreira, Railton & Watson or Frisby & Aubrey, among others, who apply to the commercial audio-visual format the ideas from Butler or Mulvey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Philosopher of Education, Gert Biesta, presented at the 18th ICPIC conference in Madrid and published his paper in this same Special Issue. In this paper, I put these in the context of current transdisciplinary conversations in academia about posthuman subjectivity. By paying close attention to the self/world relationality implied in what Biesta proposes (a shift from 'I' before the world, to 'I' called into the world), I show how critical posthumanism produces a more radical ontological shift ('I' as part of the world), with implications for the subjectivity assumed in philosophy with children (P4C), and education more generally. Through Karen Barad's feminist reading of Quantum Theory, I expose the political (western) nature of the 'I' as transcendental signifier and by including nonhuman bodies, the 'non-egological' education Biesta proposes is decentred. I conclude that learning does not take place in a subject (which Biesta is also concerned about), nor in between two or more human subjects and the world, but that it is a process of materialdiscursive world-making: a 'worlding' (Haraway, 2016). I illustrate my proposal for a worlding way of working in P4C through an example of the concept 'pet'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we look to understand the way that feminist's militants of Belém city, the capital from Brazilian amazonian state of Pará, perceive the way the journalistic interview with the young victim of the collective rape case that mobilized cyberfeminists in the whole country in May 2016. So, we promoted a conversation inspired by the methodological model of the focus group, which we could perceive the emergence of similarities and dispersions in the way the cyberatvist of two different strands perceive the interview. As a result, we could see that although polyphonic and divergent in diverse scopes and intensities, the voices of feminist thought currents in Belém propose to dialogue against the culture that subjugates and violates women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The central objective of the paper is to understand how hashtag mobilization efforts can produce policy processes for social networking forums. Through an exploratory analysis of the hashtag Chega de Fiufiu on the Twitter platform, we intend to understand how a conversation generated in these mobilizations connect with the private, public and government spheres and the politicization process. An analysis reveals that the incentive for hashtag reporting served as a starting point for further debate and interaction, which helped to consolidate an agenda as public demand, consolidating as well as activism digital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to identify the appreciation of women against the use of pro-feminist strategies in the advertising industry with a new advertising communication strategy: femvertising. Its main objective is to eliminate the pejorative or materialistic stereotypes of women, which for decades have been replicated and legitimized in advertising, this from a positive message that empowers women, inviting them to explore new roles and raise their self-esteem. The research takes as an example Ecuador and its capital, which are characterized by presenting high statistics of gender violence and sexism, information and data were obtained through a focus group, in which the stimuli generated by three advertising spots aligned were analyzed. to the trend of femvertising: "This is Us" by Nike, "Legacy" by Dove and "We change Bullying by Loving" from Nosotras Ecuador. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A recent strategy known as "femvertising" appears to seek to end the sexism that has always accompanied much of advertising. It not only proposes overcoming sexist paradigms, but also incorporates elements of female empowerment. However, it is not exempt from risks, given its ambivalent nature and the gender interests it invokes. This paper reflects on the theoretical aspects of "femvertising" and employs a case study as a way to approach this type of advertising, on which there is hardly any literature. The conclusions suggest that this is a complex phenomenon that requires deeper analysis in order to diagnose its commitment to equality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, which was an introduction to an anthology of seminal texts of the American Black feminism, draws a historiographical trajectory of the many phases of this movement, the so-called "waves", since the first one, in the 1850's, when women stuggled for the abolition of slavery in the US, through the second wave, in the 1970's, with its great activist and theoretical currents, until the present day's third wave, in which the heteronormativity still present in the precedent phases, essentially white women's feminism, is questioned. The author presents a detailed critical analysis of the terminology that, since the beginning, has been used to qualify or, rather, disqualify the Black women in the American society, though heavy stereotypes about the supposedly abnormal sexuality of not only Black men but especially Black women. Elsa Dorlin reviews the important contributions of the Combahee River Collective and of authors such as Laura Alexandra Harris, Beverly Guy-Shefall, Patricia Hill Collins, Kimberly Springer, Michele Wallace, Barbara Smith, Audre Lorde, Hazel Carby, Angela Davis e bell hooks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The gender inequalities are normalized and are standardized in the patriarchal culture; this paper contributes to making a critical and postcolonial feminist pedagogy that gets the transformation of these inequalities through of the education for a citizenship in key of equality, equity and social justice. In line with this topic, the paper can be including in a qualitative research method, with an important documentary discussion, whose target is the definition of a gender approach. To make this approach, the paper includes the contributions of postcolonial feminism and the point of view on citizenship education. The main sources of information are the feminist thinkers and their recent struggles, which are increasing the presence of the borders voices. Another source of information is the main result of a research cooperation project and the PHD research. As the main contribution, the paper collected the keys to making a feminist and transformative pedagogy for empowerment the citizens with equity. This paper systematizes and generates theoretical and practical knowledge to support the feminist pedagogy, which break boundaries and dominant imaginaries. According with this point of view, the teacher training with a gender approach is an essential tool to making this pedagogy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As Alison Jaggar pointed out, the second wave of feminism was a social and theoretical movement that shifted the analysis from the logics of rights and equality --an intrinsic feature of the first wave-- towards those of oppression and liberation. So while the debates on justice were prominent in some of the most influential feminist theoretical discussions of the recent years, power has become a central issue, maybe the issue, of contemporary feminism and therefore a key concept for feminist theories; notwithstanding this concept was present in these theories in a rather more implicit than explicit way since the decade of 1980. The centrality of this concept, as well as the characteristic pluralism of feminism, produces the need to identify the different understandings of power currently in use. This paper suggests a typology of feminist perspectives on power based on reviewing some of the key contributions in this field over the last four decades. Amy Allen's work focusing on the power over and power to categories is the starting (although discussed) point for this task. The resulting typology defines four perspectives of power originated in the second wave (power as resource, domination, freedom and care) and revisited since the decade of 1990 in connection with other debates such as that of the political subject. In the end, this paper aims to clarify the different and often contradictory theoretical strategies of feminism and to show what these ideas can contribute to a critical conceptualization of power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the intersection between feminism and agrarian space, following a case study developed in Usurbil (Basque Country). The main objective is to analyze and make visible the experiences, inequities and identities of women farmers in the context of the Global North -an absent social agent in our narratives. It analyses the multiple gender injustices in relation to the sexual division of labor, power relationships, participation and recognition (absent/stereotyped) and concludes with the specificities of these injustices for the agrarian context and the Basque case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper compares two rewritings of the Odyssey from Penelope's perspective; who without travelling she is forced to develop her own survival strategies. Both Margaret Atwood's, The Penelopiad, and the work of Galician writer Begoña Caamaño, Circe o el placer del azul, are subversive novels, which are narrated from a feminine-even feminist-perspective, questioning the truth of the Homeric tale. Despite the coincidences, these rewritings employ very different mechanisms, humor and sublimation among others, in order to provide Penelope with her own voice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The linguistic impact of the use of literature in an EFL context has been widely studied by different researchers (Quirk and Widdowson 1985; Chapman 1982; Maley 1989). However, a new line of research has emerged recently on the grounds of the theory of reception applied to EFL situations (Carlisle, 2000; Liaw, 2001; Larson, 2009; Khatib, 2011; Shin & Riazantzeva, 2015; Bjelland, 2016). Although this theory was not originally intended for EFL students but for native speakers and competent readers able to take an active role in the reading process, the applications have yielded interesting evidence about the reader who is also a student of English. This paper explores the perceptions of gender roles in three of Virginia Woolf's stories as well as the students' expectations in the reading process. The findings also suggest pedagogical implications for EFL learning at advanced levels given the complexity and sophistication of the language generated by students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A year after the First World Humanitarian Summit (Istanbul, May 23rd- 24th 2016), this paper seeks to contribute to the analysis of some of the main challenges facing the international humanitarian system, which has over the last decades suffered from a double process of problematisation and politicisation. To do this, a critical dialogue is established between social constructivism, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, feminism and the anthropology of aid, which, among other post-positivist schools, have emphasised the need to place the controversies related to "identity politics" within humanitarianism at the centre of international political debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the formal assumption of the principal of equality between men and women, social research is concerned with the existence of a regressive metadiscourse within cultural industries. It consists of a set of messages that instrumentalize feminist rhetoric to hide antifeminist positions through ambiguity and confusion. Academic texts still lack the theoretical impulse to unveil and conceptualize these notions, which challenge the emancipatory ethics of feminism and also women's freedom. This paper intends to contribute to the elaboration of an epistemological framework to be applied in further research, offering examples through the analysis of television series such as Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives, Mad Men, or Girls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]