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Feminisms on the web: lines and forms of action in contemporary feminist debate* * Translated by Thaddeus Blanchette. Reviewed by Richard Miskolci. I developed the text based on some points that I brought up during the opening of the Rethinking Gender and Feminisms seminar, held at Unicamp in September 2014 in order to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Pagu Center on Gender Studies. The text also deals with questions that came up during my post-doctoral research in Barcelona, financed by Capes (Ferreira, 2013), and my current research, financed by Fapesp (Ferreira, 2014). I would like to thank Adriana Piscitelli, Iara Beleli and Richard Miskolci for dialogue, incentives and the trust that they have shown with regards to my theme. I would also like to thank Regina Facchini for our talks and for her suggestions with regards to the subject, as well as to Toret, who has accompanied my research with care, attention, patience and interest. Thanks also to Bibia Gregori, Isadora Lins França, José Miguel, Paula Togni, Natália Corazza, Laura Lowenkron and Bruno Barbosa.

The present article seeks to understand the uses of the internet as a space for action and reflection among feminist groups in the Brazilian scene. It takes as its focus the relationships between new feminist generations and esthetics and the social space of the internet. Several feminist groups have emphasized the use of the internet and social networks as relevant platforms for organization, news and political expression. I thus take as my object of analysis one of the most important blogs in the Brazilian context: Blogueiras Feministas (Feminist Bloggers - BF), seeking to use this as an ethnographic resource in order to understand the set of actors and collectives working within this feminist scenario, as well as the spaces and social, political and cultural strategies that appear within it.

Feminism; Internet; Social Networks


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