PUBLICATION Nº 18

We are pleased to inform you that the 18th issue of the Journal Cuestiones de género: de la igualdad y la diferencia dedicated to "The Feminist Agenda" has been published, coordinated by Ana Isabel Blanco García and Elena Aguado from the University of León.

Concern for gender equality and its consideration as a fundamental element for social development is very present in our societies. There are numerous movements that have emerged to denounce the oppression of women from different perspectives. The various proposals include, in very different ways, a transversal vision of gender relations, and reflect a conceptual challenge, as well as a desire to modify society in order to build a more just and egalitarian social system. The existing gender inequalities in current societies respond to a historical construction that, in general terms, has granted the exercise of power and public representation to men in the face of a subsidiary and complementary role assigned to women. The gradual consideration of this situation as the result of a structural issue that goes beyond the specific realities of individuals has allowed progress in the construction of more balanced power relations between the sexes.

Feminism is a universalism with enlightened roots that has always settled its political agenda with the help of universal declarations. Said agenda –that is, what has to do with its implementation- has removed women from ethics, turning what was accepted as custom into political oppression. The progressive diffusion, implantation and uncritical acceptance by large sectors of the population of the postulates of postmodernism, together with the more or less overlapping slippage of the postulates of posthumanism, have caused internal tensions within contemporary feminism, while at the same time forcing the theoretical scope for the movement to rearm itself. For this reason, we have convened this new monograph on the Feminist Agenda, aware both of its opportunity in the here and now and also that it should take into account the turbulence to which we are subjected and which we have been carefully observing in recent years. We hope it will be useful to focus a debate that, in our opinion, is necessary, urgent and cannot be postponed to continue fulfilling the objective of achieving real equality between men and women.

The issue opens with 6 invited articles on current feminism: "They call it feminism and it is not" (Alicia Miyares), "Some legal consequences that may arise from the entry into force of the Trans Law" (Altamira Gonzalo Valgañón), " Feminist Objections to the Law for real and effective equality of trans people and for the guarantee of the rights of LGTBI people” (Amparo Mañés Barbé), “Review of some arguments in favor of `sexual assistance´” (Ana Cuervo Pollán ); “'He says he loves me.' Sexist violence in adolescence” (Teresa San Segundo) and “The usurpation of the reproductive capacity of women: From `empty vessels´ to `rent bellies´” (Ana de Miguel Álvarez).

The twenty-five contributions that make up the Monograph provide new data on the previous topics and their relationship with the feminist Agenda.

Added to this content are twenty articles from the Open Tribune, grouped into topics that concern the situation of gender studies, social control and motherhood, violence against women and their education.

Rounding out number six are book reviews.

You can read and download the new issue of the magazine by clicking on this link.

Shortly, we will inform you about the call for submission of originals to the next monograph.