Call for Dossier: Misogyny, Emotions, and Politics in Contemporary Brazilian Media, No. 2 of 2026

MISOGYNY, EMOTIONS, AND POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY BRAZILIAN DIGITAL MEDIA

 

Misogyny, understood as hatred and contempt against women and against everything identified as feminine, is a deeply rooted historical, social, and cultural phenomenon. Characteristic of patriarchal societies that value masculinities, misogyny has accompanied the history of the West since Antiquity. For Lamoureux (2019), it constitutes the soil on which antifeminisms develop, updating itself in different forms over time. In contemporaneity, for example, the internet and social media have become privileged spaces for the circulation of these discourses (Valente, 2023).

 

The promotion of critical and theoretical-methodological reflections of an interdisciplinary nature and through a critical gender lens on such phenomena is the main objective of this dossier, which seeks to gather investigations centered on quantitative and qualitative studies on the production and dissemination of technoconservative ideals and those considered reactionary to feminisms, the women's movement, and the LGBTQIAPN+ community on the internet, as well as the resistances, activisms, and counter-discourses that exist. Together, we believe that these studies contribute to the construction of policies to confront inequalities and violence perpetrated online. The articles in this dossier explore various social networks and media, seeking to contribute to the fundamental debate of our current society about the consequences of this “digital world” on politics and people's lives, which has translated, among other things, into an intensification of political disputes, a polarization between lefts and rights, feminisms and antifeminisms, centrally influencing new generations.

 

Dr. Cristina Scheibe Wolff (UFSC) and Dr. Elaine Schmitt (UFSC) [Editors]

 

Submission Period: 12/15/2025 to 05/30/2026