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Misogyny as a weapon of political discipline

Dilma Rousseff
Former President of BrazilPresident of the ELAG Council

Elizabeth Gomez Alcorta
Minister of women, gender and diversity of Argentina

Dora Barrancos
Feminist, social researcher. Advisor to President Alberto Fernández (Argentina)

Joana Mortagua
Member of the Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal

Beatriz Gimeno
Director of the Institute for Women of Spain

Class 1

Dilma Rousseff y Elizabeth Gomez Alcorta open this course with an important debate on the ways in which misogyny expresses itself in the political arena. Following the events that originated with the 2016 Coup, former President Dilma Rouseff focuses on the challenges faced by women in power and the paths to take to overcome misogyny and institutional sexism.

Class 2

Dora Barrancos analyzes the misogyny present in our societies, understanding it as a central aspect of the dominant patriarchal system. In turn, she discusses how it is expressed in the field of politics. A phenomenon that, far from being novel, has been promoted over the last decades in Latin America, despite the great advance of popular feminisms.

Class 3

Beatriz Gimeno invites us to reflect on the discourses and political strategies that far-right parties in Europe, and particularly in Spain, have appealed to in recent years to reach government. Likewise, it refers to the importance of feminisms, and of women in their new non-normative roles, as destabilizers of the patriarchal order in the face of this persistent outpost of political misogynist

Class 4

Elizabeth Gomez Alcorta y Joana Mortagua discuss the central role of feminisms in the construction of a new politics. In an advanced context of xenophobic, racist and misogynist far-right movements, they point to the contributions that emerging feminist alternatives bring to politics in general, and to progressive projects in particular. In turn, they review some milestones in the history of emancipatory popular feminisms both in Latin America and in Europe.

Biography

Dilma Rousseff

Brazilian economist and politician. She was elected president of the Republic of Brazil in 2010, being the first woman to hold this position, and the fourth in all of South America. Re-elected in 2014, her second term was interrupted through an impeachment voted by parliament in August 2016, for which she was removed. She has a broad political career, the result of years of militancy, which began in her youth. She was part of resistance movements against the military dictatorship, being detained and tortured between 1970 and 1973. Recovering her freedom, she entered a career in Economics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, obtaining a degree in 1977. After to hold various political positions, she joined the Workers' Party (PT) in 2001, and the following year she was appointed Minister of Mines and Energy by President Lula Da Silva. Later, she would be Chief of the Nation's Cabinet, holding that position until 2010, when she ran as a presidential candidate, winning in the second round with 56% of the votes.

Elizabeth Gomez Alcorta

Argentine criminal lawyer, specialized in human rights and indigenous peoples. She has held the position of Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity of the Argentine Nation since December 2019. She graduated from the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires, where she completed a postgraduate degree in Criminal Law, and is also a teacher there. Later she specialized in Political Science and Sociology at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO). She held various positions in the public sphere, being sub-coordinator of the Truth and Justice Program of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of the Nation, and judicial advisor for said ministry and other state institutions. Likewise, she served as a plaintiff lawyer in some emblematic cases related to the defense of human rights, among which those of Milagro Sala and María Eugenia Sampallo Barragán stand out. She is a founding member of the Society of Lawyers for Indigenous Rights (AADI) and was part of the board of directors of the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS).

Dora Barrancos

Argentine feminist researcher, sociologist, historian and activist. She has dedicated her career to the study of feminism in Argentina, women's political rights, social movements at the beginning of the century and the role of education in Argentine history, among other topics. Graduated in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires, she was exiled in Brazil during the last military dictatorship (1976-1983). Later, she completed a Master's Degree in Education at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and finally received a doctorate in History at the University of Campinas. Since 1986, she worked as a researcher for the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), of which she was director between 2010 and 2019, representing the Social and Human Sciences. She was also in charge of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Gender Studies (IIEGE) of the Faculty of Philosophy (UBA), between 2000 and 2009, in addition to working as a teacher in various educational institutions. She has made numerous publications, whether books, articles or other academic productions in national and international magazines.

Beatriz Gimeno

Politician, feminist activist and Spanish writer. She has been a deputy for the party Unidas Podemos in the Madrid Assembly since 2015. She has held various positions, being director of the Women's Institute (2020-2021) and president of the Spanish Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals (FELGTB) between 2003 and 2007, the period in which equal marriage and the gender identity law were approved in Spain. She studied Semitic philology and has published short stories, novels, essays and poetry books. Her latest work, published in 2018, is titled "Breastfeeding: Politics and Identity." She regularly collaborates with various national and international media, and conducts courses, classes and conferences about gender.

Joana Mortagua

Portuguese political leader. Since October 2015, she has been a deputy in the Portuguese Parliament for the Setúbal district. She is the coordinator of the Parliamentary Group of the Left Bloc in the Education and Science Commission, a member of the Labor and Social Security Commission, and a member of various working groups in the Assembly of the Republic. During her youth, she participated in the campaign for the decriminalization of abortion and, already as a deputy, headed various projects in defense of public schools. She has a degree in International Relations with a specialization in Latin America from the Higher Institute of Political and Social Sciences of the Technical University of Lisbon, and is currently pursuing a master's degree. Likewise, she is one of the organizers of the Democratic School Movement that brings together various education specialists.

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