Revista F@ro

Completing the thesis:

2023-07-13T18:49:49+00:00

In this article I explore the possibilities of the theatre of the oppressed in the questioning and subversion of some expressions of hegemonic masculinity in educational contexts. This is based on an experience carried out with graduate students, using the technique of the image theatre for the critical analysis of the themes and objectives of some theses written by women. In this way, I understand masculinity here as a series of actions that are not always linked to male bodies, but rather as a configuration of discourses and practices that can be embodied by diverse corporealities, social groups and institutions. From the image theatre we were able to construct several collective images; in one of those, called the image of submission, we explored the articulations between masculinity and university teaching. The construction of these images and the work with the theatre of the oppressed made it possible for the students to collectively socialize their research processes, and also to reflect ethically and politically on them, from a gender perspective aimed at questioning and eradicating androcentrism in epistemologies and research methodologies in academia.

Estudios de Género en STEM en Chile y Alemania

2023-08-07T04:35:59+00:00

Interview between Andrea Vera Gajardo (Gender and Science, University of Valparaíso, Chile) and Anelis Kaiser Trujillo (Gender Studies in STEM, University of Freiburg, Germany). Andrea and Anelis met in June 2023, during the preparation of a Feminist STS event held in Chile.

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2023-07-19T01:53:09+00:00

This paper will address issues related to the study of the body and corporeality from a phenomenological perspective, establishing the idea of a corporeal and, at the same time, aesthetic origin of Bombal's characters. At the same time, it seeks to understand the body-bodily as an ontological and aesthetic category through which it is possible to construct the dynamics present in the work of María Luisa Bombal, from the perspective of the different subjectivities present in the characters of the story La historia de María Griselda, especially those that point to the conformation of a feminine identity.

Performatividad del mal en el cuerpo de las mujeres

2023-08-04T02:40:52+00:00

This article deals with the book Ingrid Olderock. The Woman with the Dogs (2014) by Nancy Guzmán. The objective is to analyze the double torture from a gender perspective suffered by women detained in the Chilean civic-military dictatorship (1973-1990), mainly in the "Sexy Venda" detention center and the testimony of some women who were abused. and raped by trained dogs. In this sense, a reflection will be made on the performative of evil, added to the abjection and sadism of its torturer

De la línea de fuga a la primera línea de fuego

2023-09-14T21:14:59+00:00

Signed in masculine, the Guevarist ideal of the new man not only materialized an asymmetry of roles within the leftist movements in Latin America, but also exclusions that, in a broader sense, touched the human multiplicity that somehow adhered to the revolutionary project. This article seeks to investigate the possible bases of Lemebel's critique of this ideal. If, throughout his work, Lemebel returns again and again to the iconography of the 'new man', it is not only to glue 'glitter' to the solitary star of his flag. From the reading of the Manifesto to the burning footprints with which he marks his passage through the extermination camps of Pisagua (without letting go of his heels), his work was a dangerous way of corporealizing cadences, textures and tonalities, relegated 'from the party' for their feminizing potential. Piercing the binary boundaries between masculine and feminine, hard and soft, homeland and death, Lemebel's work unfolds as a defiant onslaught that targets the phallocentric center of its signifiers. Through his critique Lemebel introduces unusual forms of contempt that both interrogate and challenge the local revolutionary imaginary. The heels for the olive green, the nostalgia in the face of oblivion, the brightness against the regime of opacity of the bodies, are part of a subversive proposal that installs luminous lines of escape that tension both sides of the patriarchal trench.

Valparaíso con lentes de mujer

2023-08-07T04:37:48+00:00

Today, cities have become the stage where the dynamics of patriarchy and capitalism are reflected and perpetuated. These two interconnected systems shape and govern our urban life, directly impacting on the sexual division of labour, the valuation of reproductive and care work, and the gender-based violence experienced in urban space. This article aims to address the challenge of rethinking and building cities from a feminist perspective, taking into account the diversity and uniqueness of people, with an intersectional approach that recognises the multiple variables that shape us as individuals. As a case study, the city of Valparaíso in Chile will be examined and the opportunities and obstacles that arise in the search for a more just, inclusive and violence-free city will be explored, highlighting the fundamental role of women's active participation in decision-making and city planning.

TO WRITE FROM “FEMINIST WISDOM” BEYOND MAY 2018

2023-09-14T21:16:09+00:00

Con la irrupción del movimiento estudiantil universitario feminista pidiendo “Educación no sexista”, en el denominado mayo 2018, protagonizando tomas, paros y movilizaciones que no han dejado a nadie impasible, marcaron un punto de inflexión que genera preguntas aún sin respuesta, que se unen en la senda del movimiento “Ni una menos”, en el marco de la campaña impulsada desde la ONU, “UNETE para poner fin a la violencia contra las mujeres” que afecta, sobre todo, a América Latina[1]. La marcha convocada por el 8M en marzo del 2019 como destacan Ibáñez Garrido y Stang Alva (2021). “Y Las Tesis, el colectivo chileno que globalizó la lucha feminista”, titula la Agencia Andolu. Colectivo oriundo de Valparaíso, que se hizo mundialmente conocido en 2019, con su canción “Un violador en tu camino”, que fuera interpretada en decenas de países y traducida a varios idiomas para denunciar la violencia a la que están sometidas a diario millones de mujeres y la impunidad que enfrentan por parte de las instituciones. Todo ello muestra un vigor insospechado en el planeta que equivale, en su conjunto, a una Cuarta Ola Feminista, cuya característica principal sería su emergencia desde las bases, ya no fue solo el impulso desde las academias o de los centros de estudio y, no cabe duda, que las alarmas del androcentrismo de preferencia en los ámbitos universitario, literario, político y social enciendan sus luces rojas, en una sociedad en donde un cierto número de la elite masculina acostumbra a entregar su veredicto canónico frente a las voces disidentes. Sea ‘la Cuarta Ola’ o el ‘Nuevo Ciclo Feminista’, podemos afirmar que, tal como sostiene Ximena Goecke, “este movimiento nunca fue tan visible, masivo y pluriclasista como en la actualidad y nunca tuvo, como si lo tiene hoy, en el epicentro protagónico a Latinoamérica” (Le Monde Diplomatique, abril 2019, p.6).