Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-10-17T17:39:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Cristina de Mello Gomide.pdf: 3026184 bytes, checksum: 94806272b517d195ec2500f455c3712d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-17T17:39:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cristina de Mello Gomide.pdf: 3026184 bytes, checksum: 94806272b517d195ec2500f455c3712d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This present thesis aimed to study the World March of Women – WMW - as a network of feminist social movements in their historical process and ways of acting locally and globally in the 2000s. It sought to know what are the potential and challenges that the configuration of WMW as a network of social movements brings to face the oppression and domination forms experienced by women. The main conceptual references handle Social Movements, Networks, Networks of Social Movements and Feminist Movements. From the methodological point of view, nature of the research is qualitative, in the case study, and included documental bibliographic and field researches. Eight testimonies of participants of the research were collected, whose content analysis showed that network configuration of social movements of WMW favors the articulation of the various feminist movements and others social movements around a common platform, locally and globally, to combat various forms of oppression and domination experienced by women. This outcome evidences, however, that for a convergent political performance, the set of WMW member institutions have the need to overcome difficulties in order to construct common agendas to various organizations, while respecting the objectives and forms of action of different groups / A presente tese teve como objeto de estudo a Marcha Mundial das Mulheres – MMM, enquanto uma rede de movimentos sociais feminista, em seu processo histórico e formas de atuação em nível local e global nos anos 2000. Buscou-se conhecer quais as potencialidades e os desafios que a configuração da MMM como rede de movimentos sociais traz para o enfrentamento das formas de opressão e dominação vivenciadas pelas mulheres. Os referenciais teóricos centrais incidiram sobre os Movimentos Sociais, as Redes, as Redes de Movimentos Sociais e os Movimentos Feministas, a partir de autores dedicados aos estudos dos movimentos sociais e do feminismo. Adotou-se como metodologia a pesquisa qualitativa, na modalidade estudo de caso, com a realização de pesquisa bibliográfica, documental e de campo. Foram colhidos oito relatos dos sujeitos participantes da pesquisa, cuja análise de conteúdo possibilitou confirmar a hipótese de que a configuração em rede de movimentos sociais da MMM favorece a articulação dos diversos movimentos feministas e outros movimentos sociais em torno de uma plataforma comum de luta, em nível local e global, contra as várias formas de opressão e dominação vivenciadas pelas mulheres. Esse resultado evidenciou, contudo, que para uma atuação política mais convergente, o conjunto de instituições integrantes da MMM tem a necessidade de superação de dificuldades no sentido da construção de pautas comuns a várias organizações, respeitando os objetivos e as formas de atuação e organização dos diferentes grupos

Riot Grrrl, Girls Rock camps and Ladyfest as social movements act as intermediaries in cultural production spaces, where music focused artefacts are made, collaborations forged, distribution networks established and reception practices enacted to create new conventions which can be understood as feminist art worlds. The growing literature on gender and cultural production, particularly in music communities such as Riot Grrrl, frequently speak of networks in qualitative narrative terms and very little is known about Ladyfest as a feminist movement and as a distribution network. This thesis offers an original contribution to cultural sociology by: employing a novel participatory action research approach to gathering social network data on translocal feminist music based cultural organisations; exploring how these networks can challenge a gendered political economy of cultural production in music worlds; understanding who participates and why; investigating how network structures impact the personal relationships, participation and collaboration opportunities for those involved. Engaging with Howard Becker’s Art Worlds theory as a framework, this thesis explores how music and art by women is produced, distributed and received by translocal networks. It takes into account contemporary issues for feminist music-based communities as well as the historical and international context of these overlapping and developing social movements. The literature suggests that one of the most pressing tasks for a sociology of the arts is to understand how organisational structures negotiate the domains of production, distribution and reception, with distribution modes being the most the most under-researched of the three. By focusing on UK Ladyfest festivals as case study sites, this research serves to address these gaps. Primary data sources include on-line social media, surveys, documents, focus groups and multi-mediainterviews. Findings indicate that those involved with Ladyfest tend to be motivated by a desire to challenge gender inequalities at a local level whilst drawing on local and international movements spanning different time periods and drawing on the works of feminist musicians. Homophily and heterophily both have important roles to play in the longitudinal development of Ladyfest networks. Participants show an awareness of intersecting inequalities such as ethnicity, class and disability with sexuality playing an important underlying role for the development of relationships within the networks. For some, Ladyfest involvement is a gateway into feminist activism and wider social and cultural participation, and for many it leads to lasting friendships and new collaborative artbased ties.