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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]

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]

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]

It is my purpose in this article to point out the transfeminist connections between bodily and technological dissidence. Starting from the transformations analysis of the technologies of the body from foucaultian biopolitics to the technopolitics unveiled by Donna Haraway and Paul Preciado, in this paper I gather some of the points raised in the discussions within cyberfeminist, queer and decolonial perspectives that connect bodies and technologies, emphasizing in the non-normative corporalities and sexualities on the network. Based on the previous critical perspectives of technologies and on the ethnographic fieldwork carried out in the transfeminist context in Barcelona, I explore transfeminist political practices which lead me to acknowledge and to conclude that the potential of new techno-corporal articulations are intended to resist and transform technoscience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present a critical and comparative analysis based on artistic proposals related to some diverse discursive strategies which have been developed during last decades in order to analyze and modify the spatial discourse. Space is understood as a technology to impose sex-gender fictions, and the works selected will be linked to various feminist, transfeminist, queer and post - colonial positionings. Through this text we present a systematization of different artistic approaches and we will reveal the spatial discourse as a mechanism to generate unequal experiences. The selected artistic proposals will show the capacity of space as capable of producing sex-gender differences, which are rooted in some binary and essentialist beliefs, and therefore excluding non standardized subjectivities beyond the heteronormative and cissexist binomial, as well as linking those exclusions to other intersectional discriminations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we analyze 14 textile activism initiatives in Bogotá, explaining how the textile activity that supports them and their material production are examples of feminist postures that are not always explicit. The initiatives were identified through a chain referral sample method, their representatives were interviewed and the information gathered was analyzed in order to give an account of the type of activism they develop, underlining their objectives and the practices they perform. For this exercise, we took as a starting point the proposal of feminist continuum developed by Anne Beth Pentney, which allowed typifying the different cases as collective construction, oriented to promote social causes or as forms of denunciation or protest. We discuss the limitations of this continuum proposal when considering: temporal and spatial aspects, material conditions of textile production or when dimensioning the pedagogical proposals of knowledge transmission that some cases define as their central objective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decades, postcolonial feminism has had enormous consequences for the reconceptualization of politics or rights. In light of this, the present paper explores the crossroads among postcolonial feminism, human rights and citizenship. The paper follows bell hook's theoretical work. It does so by first, the paper reviews the emergence of postcolonial feminism and analyzes the key topics of debate generated by these approaches within Women Studies. Secondly, the paper examines some of the dilemmas and criticisms provoked by these approaches to the concept of human rights. The paper concludes by exploring the ways in which postcolonial feminist approaches might continue to make significant advancement in rethinking citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este artículo parte con el análisis de tres enfoques que han cuestionado el pensamiento científico convencional: las epistemologías feministas, la teoría decolonial y los feminismos decoloniales; luego, se integran las fortalezas de estos marcos con el fin de generar una propuesta epistemológica para los estudios de género y migración. Dicha propuesta --basada en tres ejes-- desarticula los fundamentos androcéntricos y sexistas de las ciencias, así como las tramas eurocéntricas y colonialistas que se han plasmado en los estudios de género, apostando por una pers - pectiva investigativa que aborde las interseccionalidades que vivencian las mujeres en el marco de las experiencias sociales de género y migración desde una mirada dialógica, que entendemos debe ser impronta del quehacer científico. This paper start with the analusis of three approaches that have challenged conventional scientific thinking: feminist epistemologies, decolonial theory and decolonial feminism; then, the strengths of these frameworks are integrated in order to generate an epistemological proposal for gender and migration studies. This proposal --based on three axes-- dismantles the androcentric and sexist foundations of science as well as eurocentric and colonialist arguments reflected in gender studies, betting on a research perspective that addresses the intersectionalities that women experience in the Framework of the social experiences of gender and migration from a dialogical view, which we understand must be imprint of the scientific work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a meta-analysis (quantitative/qualitative) empirical research on gender violence or violence against women, made in Spain in the period 2005 to 2012. Through it has been found to control this device to know the state. Control is exercised: usurping the role of direct research (specifically analyze the case of the Macro Institute of Women); imposing certain theoretical and methodological constraints in the research process and even introducing their agents openly part of university research teams. Political interference is never free for long disguise who wants justify intervening effectively. In short, this article makes visible the lack of scientific autonomy derived from state control (regardless of the political color of the government of the day) on research on gender violence in Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper includes a collection of audiovisual material available in the repository of the Interdisciplinary Seminar of Feminist Research Methodology SIMReF (http://www.simref.net). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Female workers participation has been a prominent dimension in the analysis of Latin America agribusiness restructuration processes. Multiple studies describe women's presence in critical places within production process. Skills requires for this jobs are usually associated to socialization process instead of knowledge acquired through working experience. In this paper, I think about the construction of analytical tools that make possible to study women's experiences as agribusiness workers. Research was realized in Uco Valley, Mendoza province, Argentina, which is one of the most important productive areas of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an experience of Feminist Research developed within the course Methodological Innovations in Qualitative Research, taught in the career of Psychology at the University of Chile. The research consisted of a autoethnography of a Drag-King experience developed in three public places in the city of Santiago in Chile, and our purpose here is to discuss the joint between the methodology developed and the feminist epistemological perspective. Based on a collaborative dialogue we analyse some results of this research and the methodological decisions that were taken during the process. The focus of analysis is the creation of an ambiguous identity that stresses the social norms and allows its critical review, while producing at the same time a complex physical and emotional experience that challenges not only to the persons but also the ways of accounting that through specific narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a discussion on the process that led us to a progressively developing of a specific methodological approach for research on one parent families. This process has been systematized and built from the contributions of feminist epistemologies to the methodological design and participatory forms of work. From it derives a scientific and technical contribution, internationally unpublished until now: Single Parenthood and family diversity Survey (EMODIF), which we propose as a not androcentric measuring tool of single parenthood, their profiles, experiences, expectations and realities. With this article we want to offer a systematization of the implications that has had our implementation of the feminist perspective in studies of one parent families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we turn back to some of the life stories from the research project Silenced voices in times of "equality". Pain from a gendered perspective, with the aim to reflect the new methodological aspects of our work, which are different from the original methodological proposal of the original research project. Considering this we have worked in two parallel levels. The first one is a narrative analysis of these life stories, an analysis that has been complemented with the use of an intertextual approach. At the same time we've written a reflexive narrative about our analysis, as a way to visualize the subjective and socio cultural texts that configure chronic pain, from a gendered perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I share some concerns and decisions arisen during my doctoral research process which seeks to integrate decolonial feminist theory as epistemic key for analysis on sexual and reproductive health public policy in Chile, between years 2000 and 2015, based on Coloniality of Gender concept proposed by Maria Lugones. Here I present the most significant aspects in the research process --including theoretical framework and methodological design-- that led to the approach of my current research project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work of Michel Foucault has been read from a feminist point of view in different ways. Feminist readers of Foucault have different opinions on the relevance and usefulness of Foucault's concepts and analyses. We argue that the dialogue between both positions has been complex but extremely interesting, both for feminist practices and for any analytics of power. In this paper we discuss some of the basic elements of agreement and disagreement that feminist authors have showed with Foucault. We finally argue that reading Foucault's work taking into account its feminist critique may be very useful in developing a deeper analysis of power relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]