"Popular feminism is social justice": Córdoba's feminist peronisms in dispute with neoliberal racionality

Abstract

During the government of Cambiemos, the Peronist feminist activists of Córdoba, within the broader framework of the struggles of anti-neoliberal feminismsin the Argentine women and feminist movement (WFM), disputed neoliberal rationality.
From a reading of Peronism linked to the national and popular, the organizations united in a joint struggle against the government of Mauricio Macri. The slogans "Alive, free, and debt-free we want ourselves", "the State is responsible" and "the adjustment is violence" - taken from the argentine WFM- were of central importance when discussing the idea of the self-entrepreneur subject, opposite to that of citizen as subject of rights and with collective responsibility. So, far from being framed within a neoliberal feminism -although not without tension-, these activisms are part of those political traditions that recover the experiences of the first Peronisms, the struggle of Madres and Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, the kirchnerist experiences, as well as re-interpretations of Peronism, human rights and feminisms, in order to reflect on their becoming popular: a popular feminism as social justice.