This article focuses on the case of Mexico, by analysing the media coverage of #MeToo in Mexico and the public response in the social media (SM) and other spheres of society such as the Mexican state and universities. Two aspects of Mexico’s social context are considered for the study: (1) a country where women’s sexual harassment has deep roots in gender inequality and (2) the fact that during 2017‐18 very notorious political campaigns contending for the country’s presidency were occurring; hence the study evaluates the presence of women’s sexual harassment topics in the candidates’ political proposals. The results show that in Mexico the #MeToo movement had the expected effect of thousands of women expressing themselves about this problem, highlighting the multiple work scenarios where sexual harassment occurs. It shows the impact of the #MeToo movement in local # social movements extending their influence from the entertainment industry to universities and other professions. The issue was covered in the candidates’ discourse for the 2018 presidential elections. In general, it can be affirmed that SM in Mexico are public places where different grassroots communities denounce injustices, participate and promote a more egalitarian culture.
La noción de cuerpo en Judith Butler: una estructura imaginada, producto del deseoThe notion of body in Judith Butler: an imagined structure and a product of desire MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES PADILLA LAVÍN *Resumen: El tema de la corporalidad en la producción filosófica y política de Judith Butler es altamente polémico por la peculiar postura butleriana de poner en tela de juicio cualquier realidad enraizada con tintes normativos. Nuestro texto busca dar pautas para entender la postura y el tratamiento que esta autora hace, tanto de la corporalidad como de las estructuras de poder que constituyen al sujeto, el cual sólo tiene como posibilidad el desafiarlas, el desestabilizarlas y volverlas a configurar para significarlas como lo que son: meros constructos provisionales. En este sentido, desde la óptica butleriana es inviable lograr políticas estables. Palabras clave: Cuerpo, deseo, subversión, tabú, homosexualidad, heterosexualidad normativa. Abstract:The corporality in the philosophical and political production of Judith Butler is highly controversial due to the peculiar Butlerian position to question any rooted reality with regulatory appearance. Our text seeks to provide guidelines to understand the position and treatment this author provides about corporality and power structures that constitute the subject, whose unique possibility is to challenge, destabilize and re-configure such structures to give them meaning as what they truly are: mere provisional constructs. In this sense, from the Butlerian perspective, it is unfeasible to achieve stable policies.
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