Militantisme féministe sur le web : le fonctionnement de l’argumentation dans les discours sur les violences obstétricales

Abstract

In this study, I examine the discursive and argumentative categories of activist feminist discourses, prioritizing the lexical-semantic meta-discourses which textualize medical violation against women during childbirth, in other words, linguistic formulations that materialize the way in which power relations cross over and shape these discourses. My aim is therefore to question ideologically constructed evidence concerning the categories of violation and activism by using a discursive approach. This approach makes it possible to analyze and problematize discourses designated as feminist and textualized in digital materiality. I will focus more specifically on naming processes and testimonies found on activist blogs, which are considered as spaces where experiences of violation are reinterpreted and reformulated in the digital space.

Keywords

• discourse analysis
• feminism
• childbirth
• violation
• ecofeminism
• ecopoetics