Presentation of the Dossier

Abstract

In recent years, feminist, women's and dissident movements have acquired an undeniable generational mark. The "revolution of the daughters", the "youth spring", "the granddaughters of the witches", are metaphors used in Argentina to reflect the protagonism of young people, mostly women, in feminism. This emergence of young people is taking place in a scenario of renewed neoliberal policies, the (re)emergence of conservative, violent and discriminatory discourses, and practices of regulation and control of bodies that deny access to rights, in a complex capitalist, racist and heteropatriarchal framework.
In this issue of Polémicas Feministas we present six articles that address the complexity of the links between youth and feminisms from different latitudes: Mexico, Colombia and Argentina, reflecting the territorial particularities in the modalities of participation and expression of young people, the resistance and transformations, the agendas and demands they propose, intergenerational relations and the impact of technologies on youth participation. The papers received are the product of research, one of which is a literature review and the other five follow an ethnographic methodological approach. The themes of the selected contributions deal with feminist youth activism, cyberfeminism, youth participation in gender and sexuality issues in school contexts, as well as the epistemological problematisation of the (non) representation of women as political subjects in youth studies.