ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how feminized resistances are challenging dominant notions of the political by intervening in the times and spaces of everyday life and social relations. In recent decades in Latin America, a ‘feminization of politics’ has occurred, referring not only to women’s leadership of political processes, but, even more profoundly, transformations in how those processes take place. Beyond a quantitative increase in women’s participation in social movements, the feminization of resistance also entails challenging the traditional divisions between the public and the private sphere, shifting emphasis onto bodies and everyday practices of social reproduction and decenters the hierarchical politics of political parties and struggles for state power. Starting with the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, then moving to the struggles that emerged against neoliberalism and economic crisis in the late 1990s and early 2000s and continuing to the contemporary feminist movement, this chapter describes different practices of feminized resistances in Argentina and how they challenge the dominant spaces and times of the political. These movements point to an important element of the feminization of resistance: organizing directly around issues related to social reproduction, in the times and spaces of everyday life, and through more horizontal and decentralized means.
