“Si mañana soy yo, si mañana no vuelvo, destrúyelo todo”.: Emociones y género en mujeres activistas en México

Tommaso Gravante; Alice Poma

doi:10.53897/RevGenEr.2024.03.03

Authors

Tommaso Gravante National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1168-931X
Alice Poma National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8755-6893

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53897/RevGenEr.2024.03.03

Keywords:

emotions, feeling rules, emotion work, feminist activism, emotional culture

Abstract

The aim of the article is to analyze how Mexican women activists’ emotions are constructed by gender and sociocultural context. The theory of action applied in this paper is based on understanding emotions as sociocultural constructs (Hochschild, 1979, 1983) and on applying different typologies that have proven very useful when analyzing the various emotions that activists come to feel (Jasper, 2018). Along the article, we will discuss how Mexican female activists shape their moral emotion, such as fear, pain and anger, and some emotion work strategies used by women activists to manage these emotions; showing how these emotions interact with affective commitments, such as love, sisterhood, and trust. We will conclude discussing some patterns we are observing in the change in the emotional culture of the new generation of activists which are breaking some gender feeling rule.

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Author Biographies

Tommaso Gravante, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

Italian. D. in Political Science from the "Pablo de Olavide" University of Seville. Olavide" University of Seville. Researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities of the National and Humanities of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Lines of research: emotions and social movements. social movements.

E-mail: gravante@ceiich.unam.mx

Alice Poma, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

Italian. D. in Social Sciences and Environment from the University "Pablo de Olavide" of Seville. "Pablo de Olavide" University of Seville. Researcher at the Instituto de Social Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). (UNAM). Research interests: emotions and social movements.

E-mail: apoma@sociales.unam.mx

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