Introduction: Resignifications of Feminism in Contemporary Germany

Baer, Hester

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“…Third, the delegitimisation of feminism through the creation of ‘unfeminist’ content, which involves re-signifying practices and memetics. In the same way that postfeminism appears to re-signify feminism by adopting an individualistic and performative stance through a rejection of collective political action (Baer, 2011), #TeamAlienadas re-signify feminism by appropriating feminist ideas in an anti-feminist context (Butler, 1997). The discursive resignification that #TeamAlienadas engages in is mainly constructed through mockery and it involves the reappropriation of insults that feminists have directed against them (e.g.…”

Section: The Affective Ideological Work Of #Teamalienadas In the Span...mentioning

confidence: 99%

#TeamAlienadas: Anti-feminist ideologic work in the Spanish manosphere

Díaz Fernández,

García Mingo,

Fuentes

2023

European Journal of Women's Studies

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‘Manosphere’ has become a popular term used to make sense of the growth of online masculinist subcultures and the rise in misogynistic discourses in digital environments. In this emergent field of research, a twofold gap exists: first, in exploring the local Spanish manosphere, as the majority of studies on the manosphere are set in Anglo-Saxon contexts, and second, in understanding women who also inhabit these spaces. In this article, we address this gap by carrying out a digital ethnography focusing on a group of women who partake in the Spanish manosphere organised under the hashtag #TeamAlienadas. We understand #TeamAlienadas as producing an affective anti-feminist ideology that enables women to legitimise men’s claims to victimhood under feminism and construct themselves as carers of men through specific digital practices. We argue that this affective anti-feminist ideology leads to the production of specifically anti-feminist gender knowledge, underpinned by a postfeminist sense-making, which mobilises ideas of empowerment. Drawing on Foucault’s theorisation of ‘regimes of truth’, we argue that #TeamAlienadas’ development of an affective anti-feminist ideology works to produce a kind of truth, which delegitimises feminism and aims to dismantle feminist politics in ways that could lead to accentuated female subjugation to patriarchy.

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Section: The Affective Ideological Work Of #Teamalienadas In the Span...mentioning

confidence: 99%