Convocatoria: Volumen 7 • Número 20 • Enero-abril 2026
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Reivindicaciones feministas y políticas públicas. Avances, resistencias y retrocesos en procesos de institucionalización de la perspectiva de género en Argentina
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Romina Accossatto - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Paulina Serú - Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
Lucía Marinelli - Universidad Nacional de Rosario
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Since the return to democracy in 1983, the demands of feminist and LGBTIQ+ movements in Argentina began to permeate public institutions, demonstrating their growing protagonism in the country's democratic processes. They have succeeded in placing issues and debates on agendas that cut across various spheres of social life, driving epistemic and structural transformations. Their evolution as a social force has influenced everyday relationships, collective and organizational spaces—political parties, unions, social and professional organizations, public and private institutions—as well as the expansion of rights concerning gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health, sexual diversity, political participation, among others (Valobra, 2018). In turn, they have driven the creation of institutional mechanisms housed in different areas and scales of the State: observatories, secretariats, programs, directorates, ministries (Guzmán, 2001).
Although over the last four decades the process of institutionalizing these movements' demands has followed a winding path with advances and resistance, towards the end of 2023 an unprecedented juncture emerged. The political force La Libertad Avanza assumed the national government and dismantled gender policies that had required immense effort to implement. In this context, state antifeminism consolidated as a distinctive feature of the current neoconservative and far-right reaction in the country (Gago, 2019). This phenomenon, termed a "backlash," represents a direct threat to hard-won rights (Zaremberg, Tabbush & Friedman, 2021).
This publication proposal is situated within a field of debate regaining relevance and currency. The tensions between autonomy and institutionalization have been identified as one of the persistent themes in both feminist politics and public policy studies (Kirkwood, 2019; Anzorena, 2013). The relationships between feminisms and the State are neither homogeneous nor linear; they are shaped contingently depending on the historical, political, and social scenario in which they are situated (Anzorena, 2019). The current juncture strains these links by revealing historical state limitations and new resistances stemming from a reconfiguration of the political landscape. Thus, feminisms are not limited to sustaining and defending their agendas; they assume a role of democratic counterbalance against authoritarian, regressive, or state-disengagement projects. Within this framework, we call for papers that explore the advances, resistance, and setbacks in the processes of institutionalizing feminist claims from the return to democracy to the present.
Special Topics of Interest:
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Feminist Movement and the State: Relations and Power Dynamics
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Institutionalization of a Gender Perspective in Public Policies: Advances, Challenges, and Limitations
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Expansion of Rights and Legislative Advances in Gender Matters
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Mainstreaming the Feminist Agenda in Civil Society: Spaces, Actors, and Strategies of Social Organizations, Unions, Schools, Universities, Professional Associations, Worker Cooperatives, and Community Networks.
