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La Revista FEMERIS tiene por objeto divulgar estudios doctrinales y rigurosos sobre género en el ámbito de todas las disciplinas, entre ellas, la historia, la filosofía, las ciencias jurídicas, las ciencias sociales y ciencias de la información, entre otras.
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Perspectiva de género y discapacidad. Un acercamiento al éxito académicoEl presente artículo tiene como objetivo reflexionar sobre las características y estereotipos presentes en las perspectivas de género y discapacidad intervinientes en las experiencias de éxito académico en la educación superior de las mujeres con discapacidad, a través de las narraciones biográficas y desarrolladas por medio de cuatro focos de discusión. Se acudió al paradigma de la codificación desde la Teoría Fundamentada, mediante el diálogo entre perspectivas teóricas. De esta forma se desarrollan temáticas de interés vinculadas con autonomía, estereotipos, naturalización de la discapacidad y reconocimiento de derechos humanos. Los resultados indican que el género y la discapacidad juegan un papel importante dentro del contexto educativo, por lo que resulta primordial discutir acerca de las características sobre el género y la discapacidad debido a que se evidencia la existencia de estereotipos por parte del contexto sociofamiliar que rodean a las mujeres con discapacidad. No obstante, cotidianamente las mujeres enfrentan dichos juicios de valor para alcanzar el éxito académico.
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Means, ends and conditions of possibility. The critic reasons of abolitionismThis essay stands up for the need of overcoming the feminist debate concerning prostitution, by accepting that feminism can only walk towards a society where prostitution does not exist, although under no circumstances should this utopia become an excuse to trample on women who live on this practice. In this sense, the paper states as the condition of possibility of feminism the distinction between emancipating goals and alienating ones, and presents a critic analysis of arguments with which antiabolitionist positions (both liberal and pro-rights) defend the legitimacy of prostitution or even its liberating nature. Such an analysis, in addition to clearing up some confusions, carries to the conclusion that these arguments only make sense in the dominant neoliberal context, where ethical perspectives are believed obsolete, since the subject’s will is thought as sufficient condition to validate any purpose. Finally, the text sets that defending abolitionism in a theoretical ground does not exclude, in practice, a negotiation with women that prostitute themselves about the measures that may be taken in order to attend their needs and claims. This way, the proposal could be akin to an emerging “third-way” position.
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Compassion fatigue and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms suffered by professionals treating victims of gender violenceCompassion fatigue is a term to describe the emotional, physical and psychological consequences of helping others. It mainly appears in jobs related to humanitarian assistance. The main aim of this article is to investigate the specific effects of working with victims of gender violence in these professionals.Three different research lines have been established: the first one of how working in gender roles affects their private life (two study samples have been compared: the first one made up of 80 gender specialists and the other one of 80 women who carry out their jobs in other areas), the second one about vicarious trauma and the third one referred to the discomfort caused by precariousness in psychosocial intervention. The outcomes show the following conclusions: 1) Gender experts suffer more negative effects when they face situations in their private life related to gender problems compared with the general population. 2) The majority of the professional interviewed suffered secondary post-traumatic stress symptoms as a result of working in violence. Social workers show the highest rate of symptoms, followed by psychologists and educators, educational assistants and administratives.3) The 78,7% of the psychosocial professionals group think that there is a lack of economical reward for their activity.This article also analyzed the fact that the topic ´gender´ arises frequently in their daily life, making difficult to disconnect from work.
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'What nourishes me, destroys me'. Eating Disorders as expressions of sexual violence against womenIn the present essay, we make a theoretical and political reflection on eating disorders from a feminist perspective, arguing how these can be expressions of sexual violence against women. Considering the practice of women’s body objectification, we approach two concrete phenomena. Firstly, ‘diets’, a socially accepted practice, that we propose to understand as an invisible form of violence related to self-objectification. Secondly, anorexia, a disorder that can lead to death, a death around which we propose a reflection linked to the category of femicide in a broad sense. The approach to both phenomena seeks to open the discussion on eating disorders beyond medicine and psychology, making visible the ways in which violence is hidden in the naturalized practices that even women themselves exert on their own selves in a cisheteropatriarchal society.
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González Jurado, Deborah (2022). El feminismo natural. Humos y extravagancia en María Jiménez, Brigitte Fontaine y otras divas (1960-2020Este artículo reseña: Cobo, Rosa. Pornografía, el placer del poder. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Madrid, 2020, 206 páginas
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The minor as victim of gender violence. A multidisciplinary approachGender violence is a problematic which affects a large percentage of women throughout the world and its real dimensions are unknown to us in their full extent, for victims tend to hide it perhaps due to feeling shame or to seeing themselves overshadowed. This results in the chronification of a problem the which, mostly because of psychological abuse, is extremely difficult to detect.In this context, children which find themselves inside this dynamic within their homes are a collective specially vulnerable, whether they suffer violence directly or not upon themselves, for the sheer role as witness in this context of continuous violence, affects negatively to the part that families execute as the primary socializing agent, being incapable of bringing to an end the situation which produces such unease and suffering as primary victims, suffering even long term sequels.A legal framework has been enunciated to protect both women and children when facing such situations, but, to which extent do minors see their needs covered? Are they gender violence too? Which effects will have in their lifes have seen these traumatic occurrences?
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Rethinking the portrait of southern women in the heat of the fourth feminist wave. The case of Oxfam IntermónDevelopment NGOs (NGDOs) have adopted communication guidelines to improve the image they offer about the citizens of southern countries, paying specific attention to women. However, various investigations have shown that these entities have not managed to transcend neither the victimized and dependent image that they have used to represent them, nor the gender roles traditionally associated with the female population. On its behalf, the fourth feminist wave has raised new debates and questions that invite NGDOs to rethink the way they treat female figures in their messages. For this reason, this study proposes a new analysis to record any possible changes in the portrait of southern women outlined by these organizations before and after the most recent feminist emergence. Oxfam Intermón, a distinctive organization in the sector, has been taken as a reference and its magazines, published in the periods 2015-2016 and 2018-2019, have been chosen for a more detailed review. Three variables are studied: the presence of individual female figures, the roles assigned to them and their use as information sources. The results show that the presence of female figures is recurrent in the texts analysed. However, the traditional gender roles have not been broken. The potential of southern women as sources is also wasted, since their statements are generally limited to confirming the existence of the adversities indicated by the NGDO and to highlighting the benefits of the interventions they have received.
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Stolen childhoods and broken dreams. The history of sexual abuse in SpainSexual abuse is a type of mistreatment and a public health problem that is invisible in society, with serious short –and long– term consequences for all its victims.This article deals with the importance and need to ensure the protection of minors, as they are possible victims in situations of abuse and sexual violence, due to their situation of vulnerability due to their young age, which on many occasions causes these victims to They are not even aware of the seriousness of these practices, leading during later ages to great traumas and distortions of reality due to ignorance and helplessness of their situation during their childhood or adolescence.Throughout the work, a review will be carried out from the origin of this type of practice in history to the present day, its incidence in today’s society will be analyzed, its different and current scenarios will be presented, to finish reflecting on the consequences of this type of behavior in the victims and their social intervention.
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Bodies, genders and sexualities: from marginalization to the eroticization of transgender womenThis work presents a discussion about the corporeality of transvestites and transsexuals, seeking to understand the course of the historical transformation of gender in different cultures, as well as showing how in some beliefs transgender people are considered divine. The research method used was the bibliographic review, and interviews with trans- vestites and transsexuals from the city of Palmas - TO. The work was carried out from May to December 2019, with testimonies about the life and confrontations of the participants. The research aims to highlight the studies of culture, gender and sexuality, describing the parti-cipants’ personal experiences and their relationship with their trans bodies, presenting their daily experiences and difficulties, relating to their identification processes, contrasts of nonidentification with the opposite gender and the divine.
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COBO, Rosa. Pornografía, el placer del poderEste artículo reseña:  Cobo, Rosa. Pornografía, el placer del poder. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Madrid, 2020, 206 páginas
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Alignments and misalignments between feminists and Madres de Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires (1982-1986)This work deals with the convergences between feminists and Madres dePlaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires throughout history, seen from a women’s history perspective.Whilst a broad context is considered, the study focuses on the final years of the dictatorship and the first years of democracy that followed –between 1982 and 1986, precisely–, a point intime in which feminism in Buenos Aires was readjusting within the public sphere and humanrights organisations were opening to other social organisations, which included some Madresde Plaza de Mayo mothers approaching feminist initiatives and propositions. Convergences aswell as tensions risen between feminist activists and Madres de Plaza de Mayo members areapproached by analysing several sources (oral and written testimonies, press releases anddocumentation belonging to the organisations, mainly) and revising available bibliography onthe subject, considering that both feminisms and human rights organisations were key actorsin the struggle against the dictatorship and the country’s democratisation. Events and initiativesin which both actors participated are considered, as well as the visions each group –orsome of their members– built regarding the other group’s activism.
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Scope and psychosocial impacts of cyberfeminist movement: State of the issueBackground: It is difficult to imagine contemporary society without their impact on many aspects of daily life. The feminist movement is also influenced by ICTs, evolving and adapting to new technologies, and the cyberfeminist movement has emerged. Objectives: The present work of theoretical revision intends to deepen in the cyberfeminist movement, to know its repercussion, the means used to achieve its goals and the inconveniences that the use of new technologies in the fight for gender equality implies, among which cyberviolence stands out. Finally, the impact and current importance of the movement in Spain is studied. Results: The results obtained reveal that new technologies are an important tool for the struggle of the cyberfeminist movement through the Internet, calling meetings, sharing information or similar. On the other hand, the Internet is a source of inequalities since, through it, it is easier to carry out cyberviolence. Conclusions: Despite the informative power of new technologies in the dissemination of the feminist movement, changes should continue to be promoted at the institutional and socio-community level in matters of gender equality.
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Gender and language studies: A long road already travelled, yet longer (and curvier) roads aheadIn the present paper we analyze how divergence in language use across genders has received increasing scholarly attention since the late 1960s and –especially– early 1970s. While early research on the field is of-tentimes based on researcher introspection (Lakoff 1973), at this time we already find certain scholars that ap-proach the matter from a purely empirical perspective (Labov 1966). Since the very early precursors of gen-der and language studies, such preliminary analyses were pivotal in paving the path to more methodological-ly complex insights into the gender-language relationship (Nichols 1978, Trudgill 1988, Goodwin 1988). In more recent years, gender has started to be regarded as a complex dynamic social construction, which has prompted the use of more refined methodologies based upon the idea that stylisticvariation occurring within every speaker’s vernacular is not random but rather systematic.
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ISABEL ROLDÁN GÓMEZ, ROSANA TRIVIÑO CABALLERO, MARÍA G. NAVARRO, DAVID RODRÍGUEZ-ARIAS Y CONCHA ROLDÁN (Eds.). Hacer justicia haciendo compañía. Homenaje a M. ª Teresa López de la ViejaEste artículo reseña: Isabel Roldán Gómez, Rosana Triviño Caballero, María G. Navarro, David Rodríguez-Arias y Concha Roldán (Eds.). Hacer justicia haciendo compañía. Homenaje a M. ª Teresa López de la Vieja. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2019, 502 pp.
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Digital violence against women in México: characterization, effects, experiences and networksViolence against women has been a social problem that has traversed in a systemic way inside and outside of México, including the Internet space, which is an immense environment of information traffic that becomes a critical space conducive to the transfer of face-to-face violence’s, to digital ones. The objectives of the research were to analyze the prevalence of the different forms of digital violence in Mexican women, to analyze the emotions experienced during the episode, to know the percentage of women who reported it and to what instance it w Violence against women has been a social problem that has traversed in a systemic way inside and outside of México, including the Internet space, which is an immense environment of information traffic that becomes a critical space conducive to the transfer of face-to-face violence’s, to digital ones. The objectives of the research were to analyze the prevalence of the different forms of digital violence in Mexican women, to analyze the emotions experienced during the episode, to know the percentage of women who reported it and to what instance it was presented. An ad hoc instrument was applied to 168 Mexican women, with a mean age of 26.11 years (SD= 7.09). 82.7% have experienced insults through the internet; the main aggressors for the different types of violence were the partner and/or expartner. Helplessness and anxiety were the most identified emotions. 82.1% did not report the incident. Digital violence is the sum of other violence and patriarchal permissions, with a cost in the lives of Mexican women. Its visibility as well as sensitization and awareness in society, by recognizing that the virtual is real, promotes active listening and respect for experiences, contributing to prioritizing mental health and the culture of reporting. as presented. An ad hoc instrument was applied to 168 Mexican women, with a mean age of 26.11 years (SD= 7.09). 82.7% have experienced insults through the internet; the main aggressors for the different types of violence were the partner and/or expartner. Helplessness and anxiety were the most identified emotions. 82.1% did not report the incident. Digital violence is the sum of other violence and patriarchal permissions, with a cost in the lives of Mexican women. Its visibility as well as sensitization and awareness in society, by recognizing that the virtual is real, promotes active listening and respect for experiences, contributing to prioritizing mental health and the culture of reporting.
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Etnografiando deportes en clave de género. JULIA HANG, NEMESIA HIJÓS, VERÓNICA MOREIRA. Deporte y Etnografía. Pensar la investigación social entre los génerosEste artículo reseña: Julia Hang, Nemesia Hijós, Verónica Moreira.Deporte y Etnografía. Pensar la investigaciónsocial entre los géneros. Buenos Aires: Editorial Gorla, 2021. 265 páginas.
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A media perspective at the sport practiced by women in the Canary Islands during the Civil War and the first Franco regime (1936-1959)The sport practised by women, with a scarce (and limited) number, suffered a stagnation during the Civil War and the first Franco regime in the Canary Islands. Although education and social changes had meant an emancipation of women’s domestic work and a greater role in the different areas of the social sphere, with the arrival of the war a gray stage began for the sport practiced by women. The research provides a bibliographic and newspaper review of the press of the time. Specifically, the social history of sport is addressed, to focus a position according to the context. This work compiles and analyzes the articles published on women and sport in the Canary Islands newspapers between the years 1936 and 1959. We are interested in studying this period since it is when physical education becomes compulsory for women of a certain age. Results shows that sport was a tool of political control during the period studied, to instil in women the Catholic national feminine ideal and transform their moral, social and aesthetic activities, proposing an involution in the sport lived up to now. In addition, this investigation reveals the veto of some sports against the obligation to practice physical education, always under the control of the Women’s Section. Likewise, the social history of sport is addressed, in order to center a position in accordance with the context and the informative treatment of the media of the moment in relation to the practice of sports by women.
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Graphic humor and gender stereotypes in social networks: Relationship with the identity construction and subjective well-being of womenThe present investigation of exploratory scope was carried out under the framework of social psychology and the paradigmatic and epistemological framework of critical constructionism, whose objective was understand the relationship between graphic humor on the identity and subjective well-being of women users of Facebook and Instagram from different Spanish-speaking countries. Objective was achieved by the following of a qualitative methodological design guided by netnography, content analysis and critical discourse analysis (ACD), techniques that were adjusted and designed to meet the needs of the investigation and the specific objectives of the same. Initially, it evidences that women are being represented through pieces of graphic humor published on these social networks and those are perpetuating social and gender stereotypes socially accepted. It put the woman at a disadvantage compared to the male gender, because women are representated like a sexual object, affecting their subjective well-being and identity construction. On the other hand, it evidences how the same graphic humor has been consolidated as a means of expression for them, like a discursive resistance, as a way of make a complaint by presenting counter-narratives and strengthening female sisterhood; The results allow to contribute and ratify what was stated by the majority of research in the line of gender studies, but this time from psychology.