FEMINISMO DE REDE

Network feminism: three young female teachers' online and offline militancy

Abstract

This article examines the militancy practices of three young female teachers, who work on multiple agendas and use social networks as their locus of resistance. Data were obtained from a netnography carried out on these teachers’ Facebook, followed up by an interview. We have proposed an ethical-political study, based on Michael Foucault’s concept of ethics. We consider that these teachers recognize the moral obligation to fight and defend, responding to a specific type of feminism, a network feminism, which takes place through alliances with other struggles. The teachers seem to pressure the school and the school curriculum with themes and agendas of struggle and militancy, which gives rise to debates. In addition, we have identified an experience of militancy constituted by practices that bet on the transformative power of small constraints and tensions produced on social networks, which is revealing other ways of life and attempts of eroding truths that are difficult to destabilize.