Filanderas. Revista Interdisciplinar de Estudios Feministas is published by Seminario Interdisciplinar de Estudios de la Mujer (SIEM) of the University Zaragoza. Born in 2016 and annually, Filanderas publishes articles related to gender and feminist studies of any academic discipline. It is, in this way, an interdisciplinary journal in line with one of the main characteristics that define the SIEM. ISSN: 2530-6022 DOI: 10.26754/ojs_filanderas/25306022 It is catalogued in: Dialnet European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Science - ERIH PLUS Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico - REDIB Latindex catálogo v.2.0 (2018-) Matriz de Información para el análisis de Revistas - MIAR Dulcinea
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Copyright (c) 2024 Sandra Blasco Lisa http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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A genderless society. Is that possible to imagine? The legacy of Shulamith Firestone and Monique Wittig for present-day feminisms
Is it possible to imagine a society without gender and sexual difference? This article searches for answers in the context of the late-1960s United States and France and, specifically, in the writings of two radical feminists in the incipient Women’s Libe- ration Movement: Shulamith Firestone and Monique Wittig. Both produced works through which this (im) possible society can be imagined: Les Guérillères, published by Wittig in 1969, and The Dialectic of Sex, by Firestone, in 1970. Their legacy is important to the understanding of many of the debates between modern-day feminisms, around the complexity of the categories of identity or the subject of feminism itself. ----- Trabajo ganador del XXVII Premio de Investigaciones Feministas "Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer".
Copyright (c) 2024 Pilar Coloma Aceña http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
“WHAT BINDS YOU TOGETHER AS WOMEN?”: SEX EDUCATION’S SEXUAL ASSAULT STORYLINE AS A #METOO NARRATIVE
This article delves into the didactic potential of the sexual assault storyline found in the second season of Sex Education (Nunn, 2019-2023). Specifically, it examines how this narrative facilitates the recognition of such traumatic experiences and portrays an ideal response of sorority through a liberal feminist lens, echoing the #MeToo movement within the context of fourth-wave feminism. To this end, the essay analyses the evolution of cinematic representations of sexual violence over time, focusing on its current depiction after the ignition of the #MeToo movement. Subsequently, an analysis of the five-episode storyline explores the trajectory of trauma, from its actual perpetration until the point when the victim/survivor begins her healing journey, emphasising the long-time impact of the aggression and its psychological consequences. The essay concludes that this process demands the victim to redefine her identity, representing an empowerment quest towards a more educated, aware, and multi-faceted version of herself.
Copyright (c) 2024 Belén Salinas Torres http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
In this article, I review some of Hélène Cixous's reflections on sexual difference, with the aim of showing that in her essays of the 1970s, she takes Derrida's reflections on phallogocentrism even further. By showing the complexity and heterogeneity of her reflections, which are not always in agreement between them, I am interested in showing the path Cixous might open up to the deconstruction of phallogocentrism, as she invites us to remark the androcentric character of the desire for presence that underlies metaphysics.
Copyright (c) 2024 Carmen Ruiz Bustamante http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
QUELLE PLACE POUR LES FEMMES DANS LA PRESSE ÉCRITE MAROCAINE? CAS DES JOURNAUX : LE MATIN, L’OPINION ET AUJOURD’HUI LE MAROC
Depuis son indépendance à ce jour, le Maroc a fait d’énormes avancées en matière d’égalité femme et homme. Il est incontestable qu’il existe une volonté sans équivoque qui plaide pour la cause féminine et l’amélioration de sa condition. Toutefois, les médias qui jouent le rôle d’informer, de sensibiliser, et de façonner l’opinion publique, continuent de véhiculer des représentations genrées contradictoires et limitantes. Dans ce contexte, nous nous sommes intéressés à la présence des femmes dans la presse écrite d’abord en tant que journaliste, mais aussi en tant que sujet de la couverture médiatique. Dans un premier temps, l’article explore l’influence du genre sur les pratiques professionnelles des journalises et la distribution des rôles dans les agences de presse. La réflexion porte ensuite sur le déséquilibre de couverture entre les femmes et les hommes dans les articles de presse, et le cantonnement des représentations du féminin dans des domaines spécifiques. L’étude tend enfin à pointer du doigt les stéréotypes et clichés du genre véhiculés à travers ce canal médiatique.
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Copyright (c) 2024 Alicia Brox Sáenz de la Calzada, Sandra Blasco Lisa http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Paula Ortiz Álvarez, cineasta española y aragonesa, es directora, guionista, productora e integrante de CIMA, la Asociación de mujeres cineastas y de medios audiovisuales de España. Desde los inicios de su carrera ha trabajado formatos como el cortometraje, el largometraje, la serie de televisión, la publicidad y el vídeo musical. Todo ello sin dejar de lado el mundo académico, como autora y docente, dado que es profesora en el grado de Comunicación Audiovisual de la Universidad de Barcelona.
Copyright (c) 2023 Beatriz Aparicio Vinacua http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Marías. Entre la adoración y el estigma originated in the seminar “Between adoration and stigma: mothers, virgins, and prostitutes.” This event was an extra activity of the course “Analysis and interpretation of the image,” taught in the Art History and History Bachelors at the Universitat de València. In addition, the writers of this book are members of the research roup “Apes. Estudis de Cultura Visual de la Universitat de València,” which included this seminar as a part of their Educational Innovation Project (2019-2020).
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Prostitution under Franco's dictatorship: an approach to the Provincial Board of Barcelona between 1943 and 1956
Prostitution is, and has been, an activity persecuted in the name of public morality. Since the beginning of the 20th century, different institutions have been created and modified with different objectives regarding the safeguarding of feminine morality. In addition, “white slavery” was also prosecuted, that is, the trafficking of women and minors for the exercise of prostitution, which years later would be called “trafficking in persons.” In this work, the trajectory of these institutions will be reviewed, placing special emphasis on the Franco dictatorship, and approaching the Provincial Board of Barcelona for the Protection of Women from its creation in 1943 and until 1956, the year in which the law for the abolition of prostitution is approved. The recent publication of its archive collection allows us to verify different issues of interest, such as the topics of its information files, as well as its memories and the statistics that are found and that bear witness to intense activity until the entry of democracy and, with she, the extinction of the Board of Trustees.
Board for the Suppression of Human Trafficking
Copyright (c) 2023 Elena Masarah Revuelta; Elisabet Velo i Fabregat http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Confronting Sexist Comments: Verbal (Im)Politeness in Spanish and German
This paper adopts a pragmatic perspective to examine the verbal responses to micro-sexist comments. The objective is to define and analyse the speech act «confronting sexist comments», focusing on the facework used among peers. The study was carried out with a Discourse Completion Task at the campus of the University Pablo de Olavide in Seville, involving Spanish students as well as German Erasmus students. The aim was to investigate how strategies of verbal (im)politeness, as defined by Culpeper, Bousfield, and Wichmann (2003) and Bousfield (2008), vary based on the Spanish or German linguaculture and the gender of the speakers. Intercultural studies (Siebold & Busch, 2015) predict that Spanish speakers would utilise positive facework more frequently than German speakers, while feminist studies (Mills, 2005) suggest that women are expected to display more polite linguistic behaviour than men. The results indicate that negative assessments of sexist comments were more prevalent in Spanish culture and among female speakers, whereas German and male speakers more frequently avoided reacting to sexist comments. Furthermore, the findings suggest that «confronting sexist comments» may be a speech act where the gender bias is more significant than intercultural differences between Spanish and German students.
Copyright (c) 2023 Elena Masarah Revuelta; Guiomar Topf Monge http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Sexual and reproductive rights in women with intellectual disabilities: a gender-focused analysis through a systematic review
The present paper addresses the sexual and reproductive health of women with intellectual disabilities from a gender and human rights perspective. Historically, these individuals have faced stigmatization and misconceptions regarding their sexuality and decision-making capacity. However, in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda, there is an emphasis on the need to leave no one behind, which must include, of course, people with disabilities. The evolution in the conceptualization of sexual and reproductive rights has led to a growing interest in their study, highlighting the importance of empowerment and self-determination. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) recognizes these rights. Therefore, it is essential to avoid continuing to view women with intellectual disabilities, as has traditionally been done, with contradictory representations that perceive and define them as asexual, eternal children, or highly vulnerable individuals. The article is based on a comprehensive review of the scientific literature, focusing on three main themes: interpersonal relationships, sexual and reproductive health, and pregnancy. A human rights-based approach, gender equality, and inclusion will ensure that women with intellectual disabilities have access to full sexual and reproductive health.
Copyright (c) 2023 Elena Masarah Revuelta; Patricia Pérez-Curiel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Care from a gender and law perspective in Cuba
The feminization of care is a social phenomenon that deserves to be focus with a comprehensive approach. The objective of this paper is to analyze care work in Cuba, so that it is understood as a universal right, from the paradigm of co-responsibility and empowerment. For such purposes, theoretical methods such as exegetical-analytical and comparative legal are used, which allow reaching significant results regarding care work in Cuba. The need for its inclusion in public policies and its analysis from a gender and rights perspective is highlighted.
Copyright (c) 2023 Elena Masarah Revuelta http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Crossing the Mirror: an Approach to the Social Perception of the Prehistoric Past from a Gender Perspective
The media is a system of immediate and effective communication, which forms a mass culture made up of symbols, myths and stereotypes of individuals as a form of «industrialised production of reality». Within the conceptual framework of Public Archaeology, from a critical and feminist perspective, an essay is presented to approach the social perception of the prehistoric past in contemporary Popular Culture. The purpose of this work is to analyse and conceptualise the messages and ideas generated by the mass culture around the representation of prehistoric humanity to understand how they are constructed and what kind of society they promote. To this end, the image of the cavewoman is approached from its configuration in the popular imaginary to analyse the stereotypes and sexisms installed, their origin, their repercussions on the social perception of prehistory and what role this idea plays in contemporary society, and more particularly, what implications they have for women. We must go through this distorted mirror and image of the past, created by the consumer society projecting its own, where the image of women is not only that of the past but also that of the future.
Copyright (c) 2023 Elena Masarah Revuelta; Andrea Mouriño, Beatriz Comendador http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland: making sense through an analysis of Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture
This essay addresses the transformative power of literature insofar as it is a fundamental tool to learn about experiences suffered by other people. Literature decisively contributes to configuring a palimpsest of veiled stories, affections and ways of life that allow us to better understand our History and to be able to exercise a political function of resistance and resilience. Based on a rigorous textual analysis of Sebastian Barry’s novel The Secret Scripture (2008), as well as some narratological strategies, the use of analepsis and a noticeable fragmented narrative, this methodological approach will be complemented with the use of other theoretical frameworks such as feminist studies, affect studies and vulnerability studies. The main aim of this essay will focus on revealing the intertextual codes inscribed in the personal conscience by Irish culture and society, which led to the confinement and punishment of all those women who did not adjust to their role as wives and mothers within marriage, depriving them of their lives and their children. Although such an experience is a traumatic event in itself, this dissertation will mainly focus on how Barry’s work entails a political commitment that implies a redefinition of the traditional concept of vulnerability.
Copyright (c) 2023 Zoe Bonacho http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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The personal is political. The rise of radical feminism in the United States (1967 - 1970)
In the late 1960s the still well-known and disseminated statement that «personal is political» was popularized. However, do we know from current feminisms where such a reinterpretation of politics and, ultimately, of society as a whole came from? This article explores the emergence of radical feminism in the United States, the beginnings of the history of the branch of feminism that proposed this new conception of politics to which feminisms are indebted until now. A journey that will enable to carry out an assessment of its main contributions, starting from some debates that take place in relation to its origins and antecedents.
Copyright (c) 2022 Pilar Coloma Aceña http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
María Galindo is founder of the Bolivian Movimiento de Mujeres Creando and perhaps one of the most radical feminists in Latin America. For nearly two decades she has been decades travelling to Spain to present some of her work. A few months ago she was in Zaragoza presenting her new book Feminismo Bastardo. The presentation of the book took place at the Centro Luis Buñuel Social Centre, attended by more than a hundred people. After the presentation of the book, a group of migrant feminist women met with her. Most of them came from Latin America from Latin America and the Sahara, with different migratory situations, ranging from naturalised women who arrived decades ago to political asylum seekers who have been in these lands few winters in these lands. This multi-voice interview gathers part of this intimate conversation between María Galindo and the group of migrants, and the reflections that shook the Luis Buñuel.
Copyright (c) 2022 Bertha Sánchez Miranda http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Violence against women is very present in the literary manifestations of antiquity. This violence, a product of an androcentric society, patriarchal and misogynist society, appears normalised, minimised and concealed, and is even justified by its humorous character or by its humorous nature or because it is the driving force of the literary plot. In the five chapters of this book analyse the different forms of gender-based or sexual violence in Greco-Latin theatre, and some of its theatre and some of its contemporary readings, through novel methodologies, which prove the topicality of a problem that is far from being the current relevance of a problem that is far from being eradicated.
Copyright (c) 2022 Rosa M.ª Marina Sáez http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Alison Bechdel and The Secret of Superhuman Strenght: The Return of a Pioneer
Some people seem ahead of their time, and Alison Bechdel and Alison Bechdel (Pennsylvania, 1960) is one of them, as she proves once again with her latest work: The Secret of Superhuman Strength. In it she discusses issues such as physical decline and menopause, which should be commonplace in fiction, but are still taboo subjects.
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Our men: homeland and religion. Catholic masculinity in Uruguay during the first third of the 20th century.
The first third of the 20th century in Uruguay is a period of changes that will give rise transformations from legislation to the moral order. Among them, they stand out for the controversy raised at the time, the complete secularization of the State and the divorce legislation. At that juncture, feminism emerged as a political culture in the country and the various anti-feminist reactions were shaped. Following the usual techniques in historical research, in this article I propose to identify the predominant values and beliefs of Catholic men in their relationship with women and the changes in gender roles that were fostered in the period. For this, I will mainly use the analysis of the Catholic and conservative press, whose articles will guide me on the characteristics of Catholic masculinity.
Copyright (c) 2022 Lucía Verónica Martínez Hernández http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Beyond the yes. Traps and successes of sexual consent regarding the Spanish Organic Law 10/2022 of 6 September on the comprehensive guarantee of sexual freedom
This paper aims to study the lights and shadows of consent in sexual assault crimes introduced in through the Spanish Organic Law 10/2022, of September 6, on the comprehensive guarantee of sex This research asks if the configuration of sexual consent implies a better protection of women’s rights. On the other hand, if this law challenges the sexual crimes’ paradigm. This law provides better protection of women’s rights than the previous law. However, it does not challenge the liberal paradigm based on the theory of contract that inspires sexual crimes. It is necessary a legal revolution that identifies equality as the right that sexual crimes should protect because no contract can erase the patriarchal status.
Copyright (c) 2022 Irene De Lamo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Safo of Lesbos. Some questions about the historiographic myth from a gender perspective
This article pretends to reflect some historiographical myths related to Sapho of Lesbos, the iconic poetess of Greek archaism. Her great fame converted her into a model (and sometimes antimodel) of behavior since Antiquity. Nevertheless, not much data about her life has been conserved. Since the beginning of historiographic studies, scholars proposed theories based on opinions about the scarce data of her private life. In this article, several topics that have generated controversy are discussed. All of them were difficult to accept for conservative minds: orientalism as a way to explain female visibility, Sappho being considered the first lesbian in History and finally the education of maidens in Antiquity. All of them try to explain why a woman could be famous, logically using their perception of women’s roles. The methodological approach will be historiography critic from a Gender perspective to present a global vision. It seems clear that all societies have created a personal version of Sappho related to her misconceptions about women and their ideal behaviors.
Copyright (c) 2022 Elena Duce Pastor http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Khadija Tnana: the challenge of art in the face of the patriarchal gaze
The artistic production of the feminist movement has helped to make visible, since the seventies, the structural and symbolic violence against women. Activist artists, through subversive and transgressive ways, seek to address the set of cultural values and religious norms that holds a whole unequal system. This paper presents the criticisms of the patriarchal order social that are developed through the artistic experiences of authors such as Khadija Tnana, intending to study the power which they burst into space for public debate to break with the expression of hegemonic masculinity. The art of this Tetouan artist, subject to patriarchal censorship, is known as an effective means of communication with which to denounce the oppression of Moroccan women, as a result of the taboos and behavioral roles that the morality of religion imposes on the female gender.
Copyright (c) 2022 Paula Carratalá-Ros http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Laura Méndez de Cuenca (1853-1928), modern mexican in Europe and the United States: travel chronicles, literary contributions, pedagogical proposals
Laura Mendez, novelist, storyteller, poet and pedagogue, was lucky enough to practice her profession inside and outside the country at a time when it was not well seen for women to undertake trips or develop professional activities without interruption. Backed by the Mexican government, she traveled to several American and European cities, bequeathing to posterity more than 120 travel chronicles published between 1892 and 1910, in which she reflects the fact of traveling as a feminine vital necessity. In addition to this, she exchanged with her peers the various prevailing educational currents of that time under the idea of the efficacy of a North American educational system which stimulated the mystique for progress and pragmatic work from childhood. Mendez, drank from these and other foundations in her condition as a modern woman observing, pointing, rendering official and unofficial reports, controversial, while she became - on her returns to Mexico - one of the most brilliant figures of her time opening path to the first women within a nascent feminist thought, thanks to her numerous experiences and cultural exchanges.
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Cartoonist and scholar Marika Vila is an essential figure in Spanish comics history, because of her long and diverse career and her important contributions to the genealogy from a gender perspective.
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