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) 2025 Alicia Brox, Sandra Blasco https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Copyright (c) 2025 María Ángeles Naval López https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Rethinking masculinities from the didactics of history: between emergent practices and resistance
This study examines how the historical construction of masculinities is addressed in the teaching of History at the secondary and upper-secondary levels. Drawing on an interdisciplinary theoretical framework informed by recent contributions from historiography, didactics, and sociology, it employs a qualitative methodology that triangulates interviews with in-service teachers, analysis of educational materials, and systematic classroom observations. The findings reveal a significant degree of irregularity and conceptual dispersion in the treatment of masculinities, with a marked focus on the contemporary period. Although a variety of contents and resources are identified, notable resistance is observed among male students, alongside tensions within the broader school environment regarding the inclusion of these topics in the curriculum. These dynamics underscore the urgent need for specific teacher training in gender perspectives and for the development of didactic proposals that enable a transversal, inclusive, and critical integration of masculinities into history education.
Copyright (c) 2025 Alba María Boix Vicente https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Una mujer de vanguardia: La formación identitaria de Magda Portal en el exilio
El presente artículo busca analizar cómo influyeron los dos periodos de exilio que atravesó Magda Portal en su formación identitaria durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. Se sostiene que hay un doble vaivén entre identidad y exilio. Por un lado, los dos exilios contribuyeron a construir su identidad, mientras que, por otro lado, su identidad influyó decisivamente en su manera de afrontar dichos periodos. Así, será útil la perspectiva de género ya que se plantea que el exilio significó para Portal un espacio para la exploración y redefinición de su identidad como mujer. Del mismo modo, se prestará atención a cómo su posición de mujer le permitió abordar el exilio, unas veces beneficiándola y otras veces limitándola. Por otro lado, también será beneficiosa la metodología de la historia de las emociones ya que se sostiene que el exilio provocó que Portal construyera comunidades emocionales y desarrollara emociones ligadas a su identidad política e intelectual. Por otro lado, el sentimiento de injusticia y solidaridad- reflejado en su búsqueda de justicia social- la llevó a enfrentar sus exilios con tenacidad, aprovechándolos como espacios de aprendizaje. Para ello, se examinaron fuentes secundarias y primarias como objetos, fotografías, literatura, entrevistas y su autobiografía.
Copyright (c) 2025 Claudia Ximena Hernández Núñez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Voices in Transit: The Role of Speech and Silence in Colombian Women’s Migrant Experience in Asturias
This article examines the dynamics of speech and silence in the experiences of Colombian migrant women in Asturias, Spain. Engaging with Black, Chicana, and Decolonial feminist theories that conceptualize language as a site of power, resistance, and exclusion, we explore how migrant women negotiate their voice in contexts of domination. Based on in-depth interviews with eight women, we question the linguistic hierarchies that position language as a mechanism of control, power, and domination. From an intersectional feminist perspective, we address the voice–silence dichotomy to explore its relationship to agency and the forms of structural violence that shape migratory processes. We analyze the mechanism of silencing across multiple dimensions: from racist language and demands for integration to the imposition of accent and changes in the vocabulary as strategies for adaptation as well as survival. We also consider how resisting linguistic and cultural change can function both as an act of identity affirmation and as a survival strategy in hostile environments. Finally, we argue that silence is not only a manifestation of oppression, but also a space of resistance and agency through which women renegotiate their identity and belonging.
Migrations, gender, speech, silence, violence
Migraciones Sur-Norte, Estudios Descoloniales, Antropología, Estudios de Género
Copyright (c) 2025 Camila Hernández Martínez, Glenda Belen Huerto Vizcarra https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Labor lawyers in Madrid: case study of Lista's law firm and Francisca Sauquillo
. The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of labor lawyers in Madrid during the final years of Franco's regime, with a particular focus on the law firm located on Calle Lista and the lawyer Francisca Sauquillo. The research situates itself in the final phase of the Franco dictatorship, using Madrid as the geographical framework and employing a socio-historical perspective to explore the intersection of labor rights advocacy and the political context of the regime. The selection of the Lista law firm as a case study is informed by its historical significance as a focal point for the defense of labor and human rights during a period marked by political repression. By examining the legal defenses undertaken by the Lista firm, this study highlights the emergence of labor lawyers as pivotal agents of resistance, acting as intermediaries between workers’ demands and the Francoist regime. These lawyers played a crucial role in creating spaces for dialogue and negotiation, thereby fostering social transformations that, although initially confined to the labor sphere, ultimately had a far-reaching impact on Madrid’s broader societal landscape.
Copyright (c) 2025 Carmen Cosmen https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
From Bodily Autonomy to State Responsibility: Narratives and Gramatics around Legal Abortion in Argentina
In December 2020, abortion was legalized in Argentina, a historic event resulting from decades of feminist activism. This militant process intensified since the 2015 protests known as "Ni Una Menos" (Not One Less). In this context, clandestine abortion is thematized as an extension of this violence and as a cause and consequence of economic inequality, and therefore the responsibility for its resolution also falls on the State. Among the political slogans of the protests in favor of legalization, the need for public hospitals and the demand for legalization or decriminalization played a fundamental role. In this sense, we ask ourselves, what narratives did the protesters manage to synthesize and mobilize? What elements in relation to political culture were fundamental for this purpose? In a context of conservative backlash and attacks on feminist movements, the role of the State in minimizing structural inequalities, and, in particular, the practice of abortion, we propose analyzing, from the perspective of collective action, the narratives that framed the process of legalizing abortion, in order to reflect on the role of the State in public reproductive health policies.
Copyright (c) 2025 Florencia Messore, Rebeca Gomez Bentacourt https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Veiled Bodies, Unveiled Voices: Aesthetic and Political Resistances in Women's Creative Expression in the Maghreb
In Maghrebi and Oriental cultures, the female body is traditionally shaped by rituals, domestic practices, and sacred codes embodied in silence and fabric — the haïk, the hammam, the posture of modesty. This article explores how contemporary women artists—filmmakers, writers, visual creators—reclaim this culturally inscribed body and transform it into a space of memory, resistance, and expression. Through an interdisciplinary reading of films (Sofia, Adam, Beauty and the Dogs), literary works (Djebar, Mernissi, Madani), and visual pieces (Essaydi, Khattari, Hajjaj), the study highlights new aesthetic strategies that emerge from within tradition. Veiling, food preparation, female sorority, and bodily calligraphy become tools of subversion. Drawing on feminist theories of the gaze, performativity, and embodied memory, the article reveals how these works articulate alternative ways of seeing and being. The female body becomes a palimpsest of rituals, an archive of resistance, and a poetic site of rewriting.
female body, rituals, haïk, gender, Maghrebi art
Copyright (c) 2025 Boushor Soukaïna https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
“Discourses of Trans Surgery”: Transfeminists, TERFs, and Medical Transnormativity in Second Wave American Feminism
This article explores how transfeminists and TERFs understood the relationship between trans identity and trans medical procedures in the US Second Wave feminist movement of the 1970s. Building off of recent historical research on transfeminists involvement in the Second Wave, as well as the theoretical development of “transnormativity,” this article expands the conversation to explore how trans and anti-trans actors contributed to the creation of a transnormativity in which sex reassignment surgeries were central to trans identity itself. This is explored through historical source analysis and close reading of various articles from 1970s feminist publications a long with an analysis of Janice Raymond’s The Transsexual Empire. Through this I argue that both trans activists and TERFs of the Second Wave espoused a limiting view of trans identity and experience in which the trans subject is only a creation of medical procedures.
Copyright (c) 2025 Willow Allen https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Woman, domesticity and nation: the archetype of American femininity as propaganda at the dawn of the Cold War.
After the Second World War, a new family model, based on a return to traditional gender expectations, was reshaped to fit the emerging consumer society and became widespread in the American society. During the Cold War, the archetype of the white, middle-class suburban family, with strictly defined gender roles, was promoted as a symbol of the “American way of life” and used as a tool of “soft power” by US diplomacy. This article analyses the construction and consequences of this family model, focusing on the role of the traditional housewife. To this end, I have examined the most influential women’s magazines and newspapers of that period, along with data from the Kelly Longitudinal Study, which documents married life between the 1930s and 1950s. The findings reveal how this family ideal functioned as a strategic instrument during the Cold War and the impact this demanding model had on American women.
Copyright (c) 2025 Sara Carrera https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Copyright (c) 2024 Sandra Blasco Lisa http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Copyright (c) 2024 Beatriz Fernandez de Castro http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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.
Copyright (c) 2024 Aymen Nassif / Habibi Hassan http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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).
Copyright (c) 2023 María Montesinos Castañeda http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Copyright (c) 2023 Comité Editorial http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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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