Feminist activism on the internet: how argumentation in discourses about violation during childbirth works

Abstract In this study, we 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 comprise these discourses. We question, therefore, evidence ideologically constructed concerning the categories of violation and activism by using a discursive approach, which enables us to analyze and problematize discourses designated as feminist and textualized in digital materiality. Our interest focuses on how naming and testimonies in activist blogs work, which are considered places of interpreting and reformulating experiences of violation in digital space.

摘要：本研究考察女性主义行动主义话语的话语与论辩范畴，优先关注将分娩期间针对女性的医疗侵害予以文本化呈现的词汇-语义元话语，换言之，即具象化权力关系渗透并构建此类话语之方式的语言表述。据此，我们采用话语研究路径，对围绕侵害与行动主义范畴的意识形态建构式证据展开质疑，该路径可支持我们对被归类为女性主义且以数字物质形态文本化的话语进行分析与问题化探讨。本研究的核心旨趣在于，女性主义行动主义博客中的命名与证言如何发挥作用——此类博客被视作数字空间中解读与重构侵害经历的场域。