Educación para los medios y feminismo: una articulación que posibilita el empoderamiento de las mujeres.

Abstract

This article presents the preliminary results of the doctoral research of the author, which aims to develop a proposal for media education with gender feminist perspective. After a review of proposed of media education around the world, it was identified the need to generate methodologies whose theoretical, ethical and political basis is promoting the empowerment of women and girls. This need is based on the persistance of discrimination, exclusion and violence against women and girls persist, even in societies with high levels of human and economic development. The empowerment of women was the theoretical and methodological starting, as a category of analysis and as a goal. The proposal Nelly Stromquist about the components of the empowerment of women was used, and the field work was planned following the method of self-awareness groups (created by radical feminism in the sixties in the United States) with young women students of Communication. After the empirical phase, the most elocuent result was that the participants noted feminism as a tool that enables awareness and that it is helpfull to create alternatives to transform gender relations subject to domination.