Feminisms in movement in cyberspace

Abstract

The general objective of this article is to understand, through description and analysis of some significant manifestations of the internet, the role of the web environment as a locus of action and reflection in the construction of a new epistemology of feminist knowledge that is more reticulated, fluid and multivariate. The article first discusses the historic relationship between women and social networks and the feminist discourses and manifestations that emerged in 2015. It then sketches an overview of feminism on the internet, examining the articulation between feminist discussion groups on Facebook and feminist blogs. An analysis of these groups is made, focusing on a phenomenon that has attracted attention and that seems to be constitutive of the feminist knowledge disseminated on the web: the well-marked segmentation of these spaces into "tendencies" (liberal, intersectional, Marxist, queer or LGBT and radical), which compete with each other, particularly in the search for understanding by a gender ontology.