Where are the feminists? Scientific-militant interventions regarding the pandemic

Abstract

This work draws a tracking of the scientific-militant and artistic interventions of the feminist movement in Argentina, also including a case from the Spanish context, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. In principle and considering the discursive focus on the domestic that took place during the confinements, we will work with that category that is known and widely analyzed in the disciplines with a gender perspective. The slogan "stay home", used to encourage the population to respect the quarantine, was problematized from the emancipatory movements of women. The work is organized in three sections that will account for two central concerns from feminisms: the overload of women and feminized subjectivities in care tasks, and the danger of considering the domestic space as the only safe space in the face of the constant threat of contagion. On the other hand, certain spaces of intervention will be staged, but also of resistance to these problems. Of particular interest for this writing are the interventions of activists and researchers by non-academic means, that is, in non-hegemonic media, personal blogs and social networks. The corpus is made up of texts and interventions from the year 2020, to understand a climate of times full of uncertainty. In the same sense, it is proposed to highlight how, since the beginning of the pandemic and the preventive health measures, feminist researchers and communicators anticipated their concern and highlighted the need for a feminist and gender perspective to understand the new event and its consequences.