Review of the book “Feminisms in Communication: Media, Networks and Artivism in the Heat of the Fourth Wave” compiled by Eva Rodríguez Agüero and Natalia Encinas (2020)

Abstract

This compilation is part of Communication and Gender Studies, which offers readers a possible overview of the dissemination of feminist activism and the use of communication tools as a means of contesting the dominant representations of the time. Over the past ten years, in Argentina, the demands of the feminist movement have circulated strongly in the public and digital space. The book “Feminismos en la comunicación: Medios, Redes y Artivismo al calor de la cuarta ola” compiled by Eva Rodríguez Agüero y Natalia Encinas (2020), presents, on the one hand, the feminist interventions enunciated between 2016 and 2020, such as the debates over the Ley de Acceso a la Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo (2020), reports of femicides, as well as the questioning of gender mandates. On the other hand, articles in this issue reconstruct the constellations of performance through which these feminist statements were transmitted, such as fiction on streaming platforms, the coverage of femicides in major national newspapers, artistic interventions in the streets, and their replication in virtual space.