Feminist activism on the internet: how argumentation in discourses about violation during childbirth works

Abstract

In this study, we examine the discursive and argumentative categories of activist feminist discourses, prioritizing the lexical-semantic meta-discourses which textualize medical violation against women during childbirth, in other words, linguistic formulations that materialize the way in which power relations cross over and comprise these discourses. We question, therefore, evidence ideologically constructed concerning the categories of violation and activism by using a discursive approach, which enables us to analyze and problematize discourses designated as feminist and textualized in digital materiality. Our interest focuses on how naming and testimonies in activist blogs work, which are considered places of interpreting and reformulating experiences of violation in digital space.