Feminisms and the 15M Movement in Spain: Between Frames of Recognition and Contexts of Action

Do gender regimes matter? Gender differences in involvement in anti-austerity protests - a comparison of Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom

“…In contrast, Spanish women are faced with the double burden of employment in precarious working conditions and the responsibility for reproductive labour (Lombardo, 2017). In addition, they participate in feminist protests (Fuentes, 2015). Perhaps it is unsurprising, therefore, that Spanish women are most likely to demonstrate to protect their own interests.…”

“…Whereas in Sweden women are more fully integrated in traditional political institutions, historically the women's movements in Spain and the UK are more independent from the state. Thus, in addition to participating in mixed-sex anti-austerity protests, women in Spain and the UK mobilise separately (Evans, 2015;Fuentes, 2015). On 8 March 2018, the Spanish feminist movement organised a 24-hour labour, education, care and consumption women's strike (Campillo, 2019).…”

“…Only a few studies of contemporary protest focus on gender and feminist perspectives, and gender differences in protest in particular (Roth & Saunders, 2019). Fuentes (2015) notes that despite the conscious adoption of a non-hierarchical organisational structure and distance from traditional political organisations such as political parties or trade unions, initially feminist proposals did not make it on the agenda of the 15M movement. Conflicts between the feminist committee and the rest of the movement lead to a reactivation of feminism and eventually to a transformation of the 15M movement (Fuentes, 2015, p. 363).…”

El tratamiento informativo de la violencia contra las mujeres

“…Desde su aplicación, el activismo feminista online ha estado complementando la labor institucional desde esa perspectiva pedagógica, aunque en ocasiones haciendo de caja de resonancia de un marco de reconocimiento establecido desde la política institucional. Ahora bien, en su continua lucha por avanzar en la configuración de un sujeto político mujer, y al albor de recientes cambios socio-políticos en materia de derechos de las mujeres (Gámez Fuentes, 2015), se han dedicado especiales esfuerzos a la divulgación de códigos epistémicos desde los que entender y desarmar la violencia cultural que motiva la violencia. En ese proceso se detectan carencias sistémicas de un marco victimizador, de carácter paternalista que, al final, no permite la emancipación de la mujer, en términos de empoderamiento personal y de responsabilidad social que implica la rendición de cuentas de nuestros actos (Butler, 2009).…”

Repression of the Spanish Protest Movement – Mechanisms and Consequences

“…Its organizations, which are conceptualized to prefiguratively reflect movement goals in daily organizing practices, are based on a long tradition in other movements like the alternative globalization movement or the feminist movement (Flesher Fominaya 2014;Gámez Fuentes 2015;Simsa and Totter 2017). Specific for the Spanish situation were historic roots from the civil war, the resistance against the dictatorship of Franco, a strong Anarchist tradition, and broad experience with self-organized cooperatives (Hughes 2011;Taibo 2013).…”