CICANT researcher Isabel Babo has recently published two articles as part of the FemGlocal project (FCT/CICANT), exploring the visibility of women’s work and feminist activism in Portugal.
The first article, “The invisibility of women’s work and the visibilization of a cause: The feminist strike” (Cogent Social Sciences, Volume 11, Issue 1), examines the invisibility of domestic work and the women performing it, focusing on the Manifestos of the 8th of March Network (R8M) and the 2019 International Feminist Strike in Portugal. Using Voirol’s framework of modes of invisibility, the study highlights how visibility and invisibility are relational concepts and how media platforms amplify women’s struggles, transforming invisibility into visibility.
The second article, "Visibility and recognition. The struggle for visibility and recognition of the 8th of March Network", analyses the modes of visibility employed by R8M across its five Manifestos from 2019 to 2023. Applying Brighenti's regimes of visibility and Honneth's forms of recognition, it explores how struggles for visibility are closely linked to struggles for social recognition, emphasizing reciprocal visibility as a foundation for human interaction and societal acknowledgment of women’s experiences.
These publications underscore CICANT’s commitment to research on gender, social justice, and feminist activism, contributing to a deeper understanding of the relational dynamics of visibility and recognition in contemporary society.