(De)institutionalization, Politics and Transnational Feminist Movement. A complex question in the light of the struggles of the present

Abstract

Approaching the processes of institutionalization and deinstitutionalization motivated by the feminist movement is an enormous task, but the construction and progression of its agenda, around the fight against gender violence and the struggle for equality, allows us to glimpse its political objectives of the last thirty years. Situated in the worrying political present of the rise of the ultra-right, I present the paradox of a movement that has never shown greater strength, but that does so within an extremely hostile political and economic constellation. On the one hand, feminism has developed virally on a horizontal plane in which the organization has been allergic to hierarchies. On the other hand, linked to the institutionalization of equality policies, it has made progress, but it has also harvested ambivalences and rejections. Advancing the characterization of transnational feminism and its agendas since the 1990s is an ongoing research task that cannot ignore the need to articulate a political response to the ongoing anti-feminist reaction.