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(Re)Producing Galician Femininities: Women’s Creative Praxis in 21st-Century Galicia
  • ISSN: 1364-971X
  • E-ISSN: 1758-9150

Abstract

Dynamic, multifaceted and multimodal feminist and woman-led artistic production has made its mark in the Galician cultural sphere in recent years. Non-canonical artistic formulations located on the fringes of, and often serving as a challenge to, mainstream Galician culture reveal new ways of thinking about gender from peripheral, non-hegemonic and decolonial positions. Galician women are engaging in creative and experimental forms of self-expression, self-production and consumption of culture by reconfiguring and ‘refashioning’ Galician feminisms and femininities within a global framework. Particularly timely in the wake of the #MeToo movement, 8M women’s strikes and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender equality, and with social media playing an ever more prominent role in the diffusion of grassroots feminist activism, contemporary Galician creative practice by, for and about women has much to teach us in how it challenges heteropatriarchal binaries and stereotypes.

Resumo

Dinámicas, polifacéticas e multimodais, as producións artísticas feministas e lideradas por mulleres deixaron a súa marca na esfera cultural galega en anos recentes. Estas formulacións artísticas non canónicas situadas á marxe da cultura mainstream galega e, en moitos casos, en oposición a ela, revelan novos xeitos de pensar o xénero desde posicións periféricas, non hexemónicas e decoloniais. As mulleres galegas están a participar en formas creativas e experimentais de autoexpresión, autoprodución e de consumo da cultura reconfigurando e ‘remodelando’ feminismos e feminidades de Galicia nun marco global. Particularmente opoturno á raíz do movemento #MeToo, as folgas de mulleres do 8M e os impactos da pandemia do COVID-19 na igualdade de xénero, e co papel cada vez máis prominente dos medios sociais na difusión do activismo feminista de base, as prácticas creativas galegas contemporáneas realizadas por, para e sobre mulleres teñen moito que ensinarnos a través da súa maneira de desafiar binarios e estereotipos heteropatriarcais.

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Keyword(s): consumo; consumption; contraculturas; countercultures; cultural production; gender; Iberia; identidades; identities; labor; labour; produción cultural; resistance; resistencia; xénero

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