Los feminismos argentinos y el campo popular: apuntes de una historia por contar

Abstract

While references to "the people" and "the popular" are historical hallmarks of social mobilisations, they have been less frequent among Argentine feminisms, at least until the present. In the #NiUnaMenos mobilisations, the "pañuelazos" of the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion, in the Plurinational Meetings of Women, Lesbians, Transvestites, Trans, Bisexual, Intersex and Non-Binary, among many other events of Argentine feminisms, we have been witnessing a proliferation of interpellations from ? that clearly exceed the well-known alliances with piqueteros, assembly activism, or those linked to left-wing political parties. The appeal is so widespread today that even the ranks of Peronism, historically averse to feminism, now call on the popular camp, identifying themselves with its slogans and demands as "popular feminism" or, more explicitly, as "Peronist feminists". is not just another name added to the chain of signifiers of Argentine feminisms - such as academic, political, lesbian, or dissident, among others - but is part of a broader process of popularisation of feminisms, our line of enquiry is oriented towards understanding the conditions that made this not only semantic framework possible. That is, if feminisms were historically on the margins of the demands of the popular camp, how did they become popular? And does this exponential growth of feminisms in our country mean that today there is a "feminist people", or that feminism is now populist? What implications does this excessive deployment have for feminist politics?