FeminismosPub Date : 2021-07-13DOI: 10.14198/FEM.2021.38.04
Silvia Molina-Plaza
{"title":"Blogs for Women Engineers: a Multimodal Study","authors":"Silvia Molina-Plaza","doi":"10.14198/FEM.2021.38.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14198/FEM.2021.38.04","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines thirty blogs for women engineers from a multimodal perspective, offering new ways of analysing their content and communicative strategies. The qualitative study focuses on how the interplay of different modes such as image, writing, typography and colour can be handled and how interpersonal and ideational realizations are construed. The final aim is to unravel relevant meaning-making practices used in these blogs, which want to achieve different objectives: overcome the limitations women still face in engineering by showcasing opportunities, change the perception of women engineers in society and redress the gender imbalance in engineering companies.","PeriodicalId":32557,"journal":{"name":"Feminismos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48853122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FeminismosPub Date : 2021-07-13DOI: 10.14198/FEM.2021.38.07
Antonia Montés
{"title":"Gender stereotyping and retro-sexism in advertising discourse from a postfeminist perspective","authors":"Antonia Montés","doi":"10.14198/FEM.2021.38.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14198/FEM.2021.38.07","url":null,"abstract":"Negative female stereotypes and the portrayal of women in traditional and non-agentive social roles prevail in advertising. Advertisers believe that it is an effective advertising strategy to misuse postfeminist standpoints, stressing liberated womanhood and constructing a universe where women have gained it all and men have to reconquer their lost ground. This article analyses the appropriation of postfeminist discourse with the aim of showing how negative and even demeaning female stereotypes and clichés are represented, and by doing so, how a retro-sexist imagery is constructed within the advertising discourse. Undertaking a case study analysis of an advertising campaign of the brand IWC, a luxury brand for watches, and applying a feminist critical discourse perspective (Lazar, 2005, 2007), which shows the gender asymmetries in discourse, it is argued that advertising perpetuates misbeliefs about women’s roles in society and reinforces demeaning female stereotypes in the collective imaginary about the understanding of gender equality.","PeriodicalId":32557,"journal":{"name":"Feminismos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49472499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FeminismosPub Date : 2021-07-13DOI: 10.14198/fem.2021.38.14
Almudena Machado-Jiménez
{"title":"Patriarcavirus, feminist dystopias and COVID-19: reflections on the phenomenon of gender pandemics","authors":"Almudena Machado-Jiménez","doi":"10.14198/fem.2021.38.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2021.38.14","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines contemporary feminist dystopias to study the phenomenon of gender pandemics. Gender pandemic narrative allegorises possible aftermaths of patriarcavirus, unleashing many natural disasters that force global biopolitics to hinder gender equality. The main objective of this essay is to explain how gender pandemics are appropriated in patriarchal utopian discourses as a pretext to control female empowerment, diagnosing women as diseased organisms that risk the state’s well-being. Moreover, the novels explore the interdependence between biology and sociality, portraying the acute vulnerability of female bodies during and after the pandemic conflicts, inasmuch as patriarchal power arranges a hierarchical value system of living that reinforces gender discrimination. Particularly, the COVID-19 emergency is analysed as a gender pandemic: the exacerbated machismo and the growing distress in the female population prove that women are afflicted with a suffocating patriarcavirus, which has critically gagged them in the first year of the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":32557,"journal":{"name":"Feminismos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44644419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FeminismosPub Date : 2021-07-13DOI: 10.14198/FEM.2021.38.02
Paula López-Rúa
{"title":"The Subjugation of Women through Lexical Innovation in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale","authors":"Paula López-Rúa","doi":"10.14198/FEM.2021.38.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14198/FEM.2021.38.02","url":null,"abstract":"Given the importance of novel formations in science and speculative fiction, the aim of this paper is to analyse a selection of morphosemantic and semantic neologisms that occur in the feminist dystopia The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), namely those items more closely connected with women’s lives. These items are gathered, classified and discussed by resorting to the tools provided by Morphology, Lexical Semantics, Onomastics and Women’s Studies. Therefore, the paper explores how new names for people (Econowives, Offred), activities (Particicution), artifacts (Birthmobile) and places (the Colonies) play a part in the linguistic task of female subjugation. It shows how in a fictional republic where gender roles and religious totalitarianism are taken to extremes, the forms and meanings of words are manipulated to enhance power relations and gender inequality, impose an orthodox frame of mind (comply with the system), and avoid uncomfortable truths. Neologisms provide a sense of authenticity in the narrative and show how language evolves to satisfy various needs, not only pragmatic, but also social, ideological and euphemistic.","PeriodicalId":32557,"journal":{"name":"Feminismos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46797398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FeminismosPub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.14198/FEM.2021.38.13
Luciana Hadid, M. Belardo
{"title":"Determinación sexual: ¿cómo estructura la biomedicina contemporánea su discurso sobre la génesis de la diferencia? Un estudio con foco en Argentina","authors":"Luciana Hadid, M. Belardo","doi":"10.14198/FEM.2021.38.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14198/FEM.2021.38.13","url":null,"abstract":"El discurso biomédico contemporáneo sostiene que el elemento determinante del sexo humano es el camino de desarrollo tomado por las gónadas al comienzo de la vida. A través de un proceso conocido como determinación sexual, esas estructuras dejan de ser órganos sexualmente indiferenciados para transformarse en ovarios o testículos, en un enfoque binario. Eso define el resto del desarrollo genital. El objetivo de este artículo es identificar quiénes elaboran el discurso biomédico sobre determinación sexual entre 1990 y 2015, y qué materiales producen. Este análisis está enmarcado en la propuesta teórica de Ludwik Fleck, a partir del concepto de colectivo de pensamiento. La metodología es cualitativa, con fuentes primarias y secundarias. La determinación sexual es enunciada como un proceso estrictamente natural que no constituye un objeto epistemológico. Este discurso perpetúa condiciones opresivas y normalizadoras que resultan centrales en la estructuración de la verdad biomédica sobre el cuerpo normal.","PeriodicalId":32557,"journal":{"name":"Feminismos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47396961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FeminismosPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.14198/fem.2021.38.03
Virginia Acuña Ferreira
{"title":"Gender and expletives as discourse markers: Some uses of joder in young women’s interactions in Spanish and Galician","authors":"Virginia Acuña Ferreira","doi":"10.14198/fem.2021.38.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2021.38.03","url":null,"abstract":"This paper approaches young women’s speaking style by analysing the ways in which the interjection joder is employed in interactions in Spanish and Galician among young females. The analysis identifies several uses of this form at the interactional and discursive level: reinforcement of speech acts, marker of disagreement, marker of complaints, expression of minimal emotional assessments, correcting and stalling. It is concluded that joder has developed multiple functions in interaction as a discursive marker, in contrast to arguments against the inclusion of interjections in this pragmatic category. The findings also suggest that this expletive fulfils a sociolinguistic function as a marker of ‘young femininities’, since it demonstrates how it has been integrated into young women’s speaking style, in contrast to traditional gender rules and broader descriptions of ‘women’s talk’ in Language and Gender studies.","PeriodicalId":32557,"journal":{"name":"Feminismos","volume":"28 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66682311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FeminismosPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.14198/fem.2021.38.08
Carmen Santamaría-García
{"title":"Gender identity in interaction: overcoming heteronormativity","authors":"Carmen Santamaría-García","doi":"10.14198/fem.2021.38.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2021.38.08","url":null,"abstract":"The present article reviews theoretical concepts that can contribute to the analysis of the construction of gender identity in interaction, moving on from heteronormativity, understood as the normalization of heterosexuality as the only, or more, legitimate form of sexuality. Identity is discussed together with the concepts of face, rapport and (im)politeness from a discursive approach (van der Bom & Mills, 2015). It is argued that gender identity face builds on attributes of both respectability and identity faces with differing strengths and saliency depending on the individuals and the context. Analysis is limited to the construction of hetero and gay male gender identities in interaction with women in academic contexts and draws on data from a corpus of naturally occurring interactions compiled by the author. Gay males seem to differ from hetero males in in their choice of resources for doing face-enhancing positive politeness and rapport with their female colleagues. Despite the limited size of the sample, the study hopes to contribute to a better understanding of the construction of gender identity from a discursive approach.","PeriodicalId":32557,"journal":{"name":"Feminismos","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66682324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FeminismosPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.14198/fem.2021.38.09
María Martínez-Delgado Veiga
{"title":"‘It doesn’t meet the requirements of violence or intimidation’. A discursive study of judgments of sexual abuse","authors":"María Martínez-Delgado Veiga","doi":"10.14198/fem.2021.38.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2021.38.09","url":null,"abstract":"This study delves into the main discourses found in five sexual abuse judgments, in different Spanish Courts. The analysis employs Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis in order to explore the topic of sexual violence, its understanding, and the dominant discourses revealed in these judgments of sexual abuse, and to investigate the way rape cases are treated discursively in Court from a feminist perspective. The dominant discourses found have been those of sexuality; inaction of the survivor; and lack of violence and/or intimidation. Unravelling these hidden ideologies and relationships of power is crucial to give us a better awareness of the dominant ideas surrounding violence against women.","PeriodicalId":32557,"journal":{"name":"Feminismos","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66682390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FeminismosPub Date : 2020-12-03DOI: 10.14198/fem.2020.36.12
María Isabel García Lafuente
{"title":"Ṯawra almar’a muš ‘awra. Feminismo árabe laico en países árabes y/o islámicos y Europa","authors":"María Isabel García Lafuente","doi":"10.14198/fem.2020.36.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2020.36.12","url":null,"abstract":"En este artículo presentaremos de manera breve los vínculos entre los discursos de algunas feministas árabes muy conocidas en la actualidad sobre temas tan controvertidos como la laicidad o el uso del cuerpo como arma de batalla. Podemos considerarlas como las representantes de un movimiento que está tomando fuerza en países árabes y/o islámicos y también en Europa. Es un movimiento que lucha por los derechos de las mujeres sin amparar su discurso en ninguna religión, algo que estas feministas consideran indispensable para alcanzar el progreso social y la igualdad de género.","PeriodicalId":32557,"journal":{"name":"Feminismos","volume":"619 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66682297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FeminismosPub Date : 2020-12-03DOI: 10.14198/2020.36.07
Maureen Amimo
{"title":"Contestations of nationhood and belonging in contemporary African women travel writing","authors":"Maureen Amimo","doi":"10.14198/2020.36.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14198/2020.36.07","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary African travel writing produces interesting possibilities redefining the directions of the genre. One of these promises manifests in how the crisis of nationhood and belonging impacts subjects’ navigation of sites of travel. African travel narratives by women foreground fractured intimacies encumbering journeys, especially when subjects travel «home». Such texts extensively grapple with the complexities of negotiating the personal and the collective in a bid to unravel belonging. This article examines two travelogues by African women: Leah Chishugi’s A Long Way from Paradise: Surviving the Rwandan Genocide and Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria as explorations of how reading precarities of nationhood through embodied travel re-imagines private journeys as a means to tease out public anxieties of nationhood and belonging. In the process of narrating precarious journeys, African women complicate the travelogue into a political statement of belonging and its paradoxes.","PeriodicalId":32557,"journal":{"name":"Feminismos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47963579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}