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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]

In "The Yellow Wall-paper" (1982), Charlotte Perkins Gilman brings to the surface the kind of treatment women were subjected to by doctors who acted following their own -male- point of view, ignoring women's perspective and opinions completely. This short story constitutes a valuable document about the situation of women in the United States by the end of XIX century, as it unveils the contradictions of a period of important social change. [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]

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]

This paper is a revision of the female correctional project managed by Buen Pastor's congregation in Córdoba at the end of XIX century and the beginning of XX century, from a descolonial feminism perspective. Focusing specifically on the wide range of subjectivities that inhabited Cárcel Correccional de Mujeres y Asilo de Menores del Buen Pastor and on correcting strategies, such as job training, I identified relations that allow to spot a gender colonial arrangement that aimed at securing domination and assuring hegemony. Underlying fictions of race, gender and class in this society were identified through the implementation of colocación and weaving of actors that is implied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Transdisciplinary dialogue between feminist theories and other approaches is fundamental. The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical reflection on the pertinence of incorporating the Feminist Standpoint Theory within the psychosocial perspective of Symbolic Interactionism developed from the Chicago School. We find this possibility at various convergence points between both stances: the opposition to positivism and scientificism; the interest in disarticulating essentialist conceptions; a situated, partial and processual vision of the construction of knowledge; the openness to implement various methods; and an investigative orientation based on intersubjectivity and experience. In this way, the possibilities of analysis and interpretation of one frame are neither accessory nor complementary to the other. Instead, we suggest thinking of a Feminist Symbolic Interactionism through the discussion of its epistemological, conceptual and methodological implications. What underlays in this theoretical positioning is an analytical and political enunciation platform that allows a critical psychosocial approach to inequality and other phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a first analytical effort to constitute a feminist sociology of transgression. Based on the sociology of deviation, feminism and psychoanalysis, some notes are proposed to provide theoretical and epistemological content for concepts to enable us to understand the phenomenon of the rupture of the social order, characterized as the grammar of horror. First the conceptual basis of this proposal is explained. Then the author debates why the concept of deviation is insufficient for interpreting and understanding the rupture of the social order. Finally, the conceptual and thematic proposal that should be adopted by a sociology that seeks to make women's bodies, behaviors and practices visible is presented. From a methodological point of view, this is an analytical theoretical debate that uses empirical references from the current social order in Mexico where necessary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years a new digital phenomenon has emerged, as a result of the development of social networks: the influencers. It is a trend closely related to the field of women's fashion and that increases sexist stereotypes. At the same time, a feminist current has become strong, led by millennial women (in many cases artists) who want to make real women visible and who take advantage of their influence on Instagram to claim gender equality. This paper analyzes the work and the main contributions of the most influential feminist instagramers, in contrast to fashion instagramers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The start of the negotiations in 2012 between the government of Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP) over an agreement to put an end to the Colombian armed conflict was marked by the absence of women. In response, women's and feminist movements raised their voices to press the government for inclusion in the process. Due to their intervention, women's invisibility was alleviated by the creation of the Gender Subcommittee, the first of its kind in the world, and the gendered approach was mainstreamed. This paper analyses the meaning of war in the lives of Colombian women and the journey women's and feminist movements took to gain recognition for their experiences and needs in the 2016 Peace Agreement. [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]

In the context of a growing presence of visual methods in social research, photovoice is positioned as a participatory methodological strategy combining photography production and community action, with an explicit influence of the feminist perspective. However, the links between the photovoice methodology and feminist thought have not been sufficiently elaborated and have been mostly limited to the task of identifying community needs for women and other subjects considered marginalized. In this paper we propose a re-reading of the photovoice methodology in the light of conceptual tools coming from the post-structuralist feminism framed in the third wave. We argue that such redefinition allows updating the links between photovoice and its feminist imprint and broadening its methodological scope. To illustrate this, we present a study conducted with photovoice methodology in a Mexican province, whose objective was to explore the relationship between gender and social action in the experience of activist women. In contrast with its traditional definition, we argue that photovoice can be conceived as a methodological strategy that allows: a) emphasizing the agency of participants; b) diversifying and expanding the social actors to which the methodology is directed; c) critically examining politics of representations and intervene in the cultural and symbolic order; d) privileging the emergence of "situated knowledge" and the connections between different perspectives; and e) implementing in the methodological level the feminist principle according to which 'the personal is political'. We conclude by proposing that this particular re-reading of photovoice allows to enrich its methodological potentialities as it enables a renewed articulation between feminist epistemologies, participatory perspectives, exploration of subjectivity and action-oriented research. [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]

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]

The aim of this paper is to describe and understand the phenomena of chronic pain without organic cause (better known as fibromyalgia) from a feminist and critical perspective through made of a tool by which to diagnose this pain as bio-psycho-social dimensions: gender psycho-social diagnosis. This tool, presented here, taking into account the labour dimension (both professional and family) of the affected people in the cultural context Catalan (Spanish State) of the last 5 decades, ambivalent in terms of gender equality. The production data we use in this paper it's obtained through in-depth interviews (conducted in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain) and analyzed by content analysis and critical discourse analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The notions of stereotype, sexism and symbolic violence are not only regular categories in academic work analyzing advertisements and campaigns, but also, thanks to the militant efforts of many organizations and educational initiatives, have begun to be part of media doxy and everyday language. This paper seeks to present the observations carried out throughout almost ten years of existence of the Advertising Observatory on Sexism of the UAI's Bachelor's degree in Advertising, bearing in mind the regularities and transformations of housework depiction [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the situation of the studies on Gender and Feminism that have developed in Spain with the inauguration of the European Higher Education Area as part of the implementation of the Bologna Plan. First, we will perform an analysis of the historical circumstances of the Spanish university and its territorial characteristics. The objective of the work is to make a conceptual map with the strengths and weaknesses of studies that the society has been demanding to develop the different Plans of Equality in the democratic period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at examining the relation between pedagogy, literature, feminism and emotions. It is divided into three sections. In the first, I explore the strategies for a pedagogy of literature engaged with a feminist critique. Secondly, I explain the productivity of the notion of body as well as some premises underpinning the field of Emotion Studies. Finally, I focus on a discursive and emotional reading of "Lección de cocina" by Rosario Castellanos to illuminate previous theoretical points. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the return to democracy in our country, many different movements, having different aims appeared. Among them, those which would struggle for the defence of women’s rights. The province of La Pampa has not been exempt from this fenomenon. In a period of more than three decades flourished in the pampean social scenery several movements. Nontheless, it is about the end of the 20th century that many other emerged, whose objectives are clearly feminist, and they are bound to the express defence of women’s rights. This is the case of Movement for Women’s Rights of General Pico”, subject of study in this paper. Adopting a regional perspective, from a gender viewpoint, this research is powered by the following questionings: Did the constitution of this movement implied a resignification and reconstruction of both, individual and collective identities of its members? In what sense? In which context do they decide to group? Which were, a still are their aims? Which lines of action do they have? Have they achieved any goals? Which ones? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Feminist frameworks have focused on gender inequality as the fundamental explanatory factor of male violence against women in union. This paper extends the analysis to contributions produced through social research. The approaches studied consider the personal characteristics of victims and aggressors (individual focus), the male-female power relationship within the couple (dyadic focus), and structural and symbolic factors (macro-social focus). An exploration of the respective contributions of these different perspectives shows that they offer only partial, inadequate approaches, given the multidimensional complexity of the problem. The main conclusions recognize that it is necessary to develop multi-level and inter-relational analytical frameworks such as the intersectional paradigm, in order to achieve a better understanding of the connection between gender inequality and male violence against women. [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]

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 the topic of implicit gender violence in Mexican song and its dissemination through radio addresses. It is an approach to the devastation of the human dignity of women by songwriters that have softened the aggression for free broadcasting. From oldies to present day, composers, interpreters and communicators, in full government complacency and a close relationship with a male training, have created and disseminated androcentrism music and have sold a premise: women are not worthy of man. It is part of feminist positions; history of radio as a social phenomenon, the forgotten law; music as an element of socialization to reach a point of agreement: remove broadcasting any kind of violence against women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an empirical analysis of nonverbal communication and gender in the political arena. Does not part of the base that has a nonverbal speech on oral supremacy, but set an object of study based on nonverbal communication that is capable of providing meaning to oral speech. Is selected for this policy area because it is where there is more preparation discourse, ranging from the floor, through the attire and reaching the gesture. This will be analyzed various audiovisual messages of candidates to the Secretary General of the PSOE, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba and Carmen Chacon, both alone and in interaction, in order to see if there is any significant change in their discourse on gender and presents the most significant results of this analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper asks: in post-postfeminist times constitutes a feminist reading of the popular, and in particular potential futures are implied by the current 'return' to canonical feminist practices of reading, and how might these apparently utopian futures work to silence cer-tain critical voices emanating from within the sphere of the popular - particularly queer and feminine voices? In answer to this question, it proposes a re-examining of contemporary 'abject' images of femininity in order propose a re-framing of feminist analysis of visual culture. By reading fashion imagery alongside selfie culture and popular feminist narratives of the visual, it argues that the melancholy nature of the popular representation of femininity precisely dramatizes the impossibly divided position of female femininity in a masculinist world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This reflective paper tries to summarize the thinking of feminist Seyla Benhabib and show her concern about identity problems, subjectivity, and challenges which the feminist thought must raise. In particular, the challenge of becoming on par with other identity theorists and to enter the contemporary philosophical, moral and political discussion as an equal. Benhabib's theoretical considerations focus on the need to replace the subject of study and paradigms in feminist theories. These theories lead to the fragmentation of human and social groups, while eliminating the possibility of developing a common point of view about the radical transformation of society. The author contends that the unity of the "ego" and the subject matter are important for the feminist theory and practice; that's why it is necessary to establish the identity. To this end, Benhabib weighs the contributions of communitarian theories, postmodern and feminist and tries to combine them in the context of one radical critical theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses trans from an athropological persepective. It focusses particularly on transsexuality as a specific variant, or gender mainstreaming, aiming to contribute elements for understanding in relation to the order of gender in line with the contemporary medico-legal system. It analyzes the difficult relationships of transsexualism with certain sectors of the feminist movement, along with the inherent paradoxes when aiming to construct a specific transsexual identity. Finally, we dedicate some space to anthropolgical trans research, as well as its limits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses gender research in urban public space through three different perspectives: the social representations and differentiated uses of space, the division of roles in public and private spaces, and urban planning of public space. The paper gathers and analyses some studies that complement the state of art and literature on women and space giving evidence on how women have been segregated from public space and are victim of gender inequalities. Public space does not exist absolutely nor gender; instead both are socially constructed by social order and reproduced by social practices. Finally, some suggestions for urban planning and research are given in order to respond women's needs in public space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Efforts to curtail discrimination against women have traditionally been couched in terms of rights. Although these efforts often lead to improvements in women's equality and living conditions, they do not suffice to deconstruct the structural grounds of gender discrimination in western societies. This paper propounds that we should redefine gender relations through a new model of citizenship. It proposes that we elaborate a model of citizenship that does not rest on the myth of (male) independence, but assumes instead human beings' interdependent and relational nature. It proposes that we move from a model of citizenship towards a model of caringzenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to present the theoretical progress that relates the problems concerning criminal law, procedural criminal law, gender theory and feminism, making a brief description of the contribution given by national and foreign authors. It tries to reach a theoretical perspective that helps the critic interpretations of criminal law and preserves the non-discriminatory bias of gender theory and feminism, as long as disciplines belonging to the human rights paradigm. The last issue is not always possible to reach, since contradictions and valuable contributions, although tense among them, can be found. On the one hand, those tensions between gender theory and criminal law difficult the possibility of having an extensive discourse about the needs of specific groups, especially women that are caught in the punitive power nets. On the other hand, the same tensions lead to the discussion about women and the judicial discourse, as this is a powerful instrument that creates law subject and crystallizes social relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The feminist concern about the city arises from questioning the unequal distribution of spaces and the differential assignment of household and public spheres, by stating that the city scenario is where everyday's life is set up, social processes develop, and women mobility and activities correspond with "feminine" stereotypes, influenced by a male perspective both for the planning and for the prevailing culture. Citizenship originates in the cities, but these present gender unequal patterns, the sharp private from public separation associated with the feminine and the masculine in the metropolis, the spatial structure that hinders use and access in the benefits of the city., the lack of green areas and infrastructure, or the lack of safety, which affect women more deeply. Therefore, the claim for the right to the city in the organizational practices of popular urban women, showing inconsistencies, deficiencies, and weaknesses in the traditional notion of citizenship. This paper shows these contradictions both on a theoretical and a practical basis, because between conflicts and negotiations, freedoms and restrictions, women inhabit and re-inhabit the city everyday, in privileged spaces for the democratic exercise. These topics are examined in this article, where new and old issues involved in the discussion are analyzed in the light of a set of practical fieldwork evidence in popular neighborhoods of the city of Concepcion, Chile. [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]

This paper is a comprehensive analysis of Argentinean historiographic memory as regards the condition of women and gender studies. It is a state-of-the-art work on the historical discipline in this field and refers both to the precursory works from before the 1980's and to the activities carried out by an ever-increasing number of agents, at the moment when historiography was legitimated in our country, by the mid 80's. This expansion coincides with a series of phenomena, both internal and external, among which we may point out the outstanding renewal and spread of feminist studies, epistemological changes, transformations in social history, the international growth of gender historiography, together with the social and political changes that took place in Argentina with the return of democracy and the new approaches introduced in the academic context with the advent of studies on women and gender. There exists a conceptual attempt to typify these contributions which evince both their lines of strength and also those aspects still awaiting historical probe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]