El #MeToo como política testimonial : nuevas perspectivasde la violencia sexual y la resistencia en autobiografías de supervivientes
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2025
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06/05/2025
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Esta tesis examina una serie de obras autobiográficas sobre la violencia sexual publicadas en torno al surgimiento del movimiento #MeToo. En línea con la teoría de Judith Butler sobre la vulnerabilidad como una condición política que conduce a la resistencia, el #MeToo se entiende como un movimiento político que moviliza la vulnerabilidad al animar a las supervivientes a ocupar los espacios públicos para exponer cómo la violencia sexual ha sido históricamente legitimada. Desde esta perspectiva, analizo como el movimiento, a través de su manifestación testimonial, fomenta la agencia de las supervivientes fuera de las instituciones y busca desestabilizar los discursos que tradicionalmente han hecho a las víctimas vulnerables.Según Leigh Gilmore, históricamente, las mujeres que denuncian casos de violencia sexual han sido interrogadas bajo estándares de credibilidad inalcanzables. Por otro lado, la crítica entiende el testimonio de las supervivientes no solo se ve afectado por los discursos culturales que lo rodean, sino que también es capaz de interrogar a estos...
This thesis examines a series of autobiographical works on sexual violence published around the outbreak of the #MeToo movement. In line with Judith Butler’s theory of vulnerability as a political condition leading to resistance, #MeToo is understood as a political movement that activates vulnerability by encouraging survivors to occupy public spaces to expose how sexual violence has been historically legitimated. From this perspective, I analyze how the movement, through its testimonial manifestations, fosters survivors’ agency outside institutions and seeks to destabilize the cultural and institutional discourses through which victims have traditionally been rendered vulnerable.According to Leigh Gilmore, historically, women who speak out about sexual violence have been interrogated under unreachable standards of credibility. At the same time, the critic understands survivor testimony not only as being affected by the cultural discourses surrounding it but also as capable of contesting them...
This thesis examines a series of autobiographical works on sexual violence published around the outbreak of the #MeToo movement. In line with Judith Butler’s theory of vulnerability as a political condition leading to resistance, #MeToo is understood as a political movement that activates vulnerability by encouraging survivors to occupy public spaces to expose how sexual violence has been historically legitimated. From this perspective, I analyze how the movement, through its testimonial manifestations, fosters survivors’ agency outside institutions and seeks to destabilize the cultural and institutional discourses through which victims have traditionally been rendered vulnerable.According to Leigh Gilmore, historically, women who speak out about sexual violence have been interrogated under unreachable standards of credibility. At the same time, the critic understands survivor testimony not only as being affected by the cultural discourses surrounding it but also as capable of contesting them...
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Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, leída el 06-05-2025













