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ResumenMás allá de afirmar la teoría como proyecto abstracto, incorpóreo y consciente, que se define en oposición a una materia demasiado corpórea, pasiva (y feminizada), según filósofas materialistas postestructuralistas y feministas como Irigaray, Rich, Cavarero o Braidotti, la teorización se ha reformulado como un proceso en el que se invoca la corporeidad del sujeto pensante -entre otros factores-para replantearse, al mismo tiempo, qué significa teorizar y qué significa existir como sujeto corpóreo. De manera similar, y apuntándose a la tendencia crítica y creativa de reclamar la materialidad agencial de los procesos de pensamiento «en-carnado e incardinado» (Braidotti, 2011), la pregunta que sigue resultando crucial para las conversaciones del nuevo materialismo feminista es « ¿Cómo se materializa la teorización?» y « ¿Cómo importa?» (considerando los dos sentidos de matter como «materia» e «importar»). Al interpretar los movimientos feministas postestructuralistas de manera afirmativa, este texto pretende enfatizar la relevancia de ir más allá de la costumbre filosófica que constituye el pensamiento incorpóreo «desde ninguna parte», es decir, planteado desde una «masculinidad abstracta» (Hartsock, 1987) o neutra, dado que, junto con Van der Tuin y Dolphijn (2010, 2011) se argumenta que la teorización «ya es siempre» una práctica material y discursiva continuada. Es más, reconocer los procesos materiales de la teorización no solo resulta relevante en lo referente a la responsabilidad «onto-epistemológica» (Barad, 2003), sino que además es una tarea con implicaciones éticas y políticas, en tanto que solo reconociendo cómo se materializa e importa la teorización se plantea el posible potencial transformador interno del nuevo materialismo 18

This article focuses on the phenomenon of men’s engagement with gender equality and what scholars in the field of critical studies of men and masculinities (CSMM) have called profeminist antiviolence activism. The main aim of profeminist antiviolence men’s groups is to raise gender awareness among men in order to involve them in the making of a more egalitarian society. Their primary action is aimed at eradicating male violence against women. This article presents how this type of collective engagement is emerging in the contexts of contemporary Italy and Spain, and draws upon research conducted by the author among the members of the Italian men’s network Maschile Plurale http://www. maschileplurale.it/ and the Spanish men’s Asociación de Hombres por la Igualdad de Género (AHIGE) http://www.ahige.org/.

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There has been growing concern about the increase in gender-based violence (GBV) among young people. The aim of this study was to explore the grey zones in GBV alongside gender (masculinities and femininities) discourses in young adults. We used the concept of a “grey zone” as an analytical tool to identify possible contradictory discursive positions where the notions of victims and perpetrators of GBV converge and become ambiguous. We performed a qualitative study based on 20 semi-structured interviews and 4 focus groups (October 2019 to February 2020) in Spain with a sample of 49 cisgender women and men, aged between 18 and 24, some involved in feminist activism and some not. We conducted a sociological analysis of the discourse system. Study findings show how culturally constructed gender norms intervene in the ways in which young people understand and deal with GBV. When asked general questions about GBV, this concept was problematized along with gender assumptions and two discursive positions were identified: the discourse of “men as authors of GBV” and the discourse of “GBV as an individual genderless issue.” When vignettes of everyday GBV situations were shown, grey zones became visible when discussing subtle forms of GBV influenced by the myths of romantic love, victim-blaming around sexual violence, digital GBV and bystander men intervention on GBV. In those grey zones, discourses on GBV were articulated around unequal notions of gender that, in turn, served as its justification, reproduction, and normalization. The grey zones identified represent contexts of oppression that illustrate how GBV is systematically reproduced, as well as the ways in which young people can be involved in it, perpetuating power and health inequalities. Our findings provide information as a guide to design GBV interventions and prevention actions that incorporate a focus on gender configurations.