The PhD Candidate Mariana Espeleta Olivera, graduate researcher at the Seminari Filosofia i Gènere, will defend her doctoral dissertation, supervised by Fina Birulés (Universitat de Barcelona) and Beatriz Ferrús (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), entitled "Subalternidades femeninas: la autorrepresentación como resistencia". The dissertation offers a theoretical framework which merges Gramsci's political theory and feminist theory, in order to think about how women's subalternity is politically constructed as an essential element of the hegemonic projects, as well as about the possibilities of resistance to this domination, particularly through self-representation. Furthermore, the candidate uses this framework to rethink the construction of gender hegemony in post-revolutionary Mexico, and to analyze the cases of two groups of Mexican women who are currently opposing such domination: the mothers of those women who are missing or were killed in Ciudad Juárez, and the "Patronas" from Veracruz, who help undocumented migrants on their way through the country.
