Feminisms in democracy: an approach from the knots of Argentine feminist politics

Feminisms have become massive and are now predominant in the public arena. Their voices are heard in the streets, schools, political parties and even in the state. Although their organisations have more than a century of history in our country, it seems that the forcefulness of their proclamations and the transformative potential of their emancipatory project can only now be appreciated. In this article I propose a reflection on this unusual scenario based on a review of its vicissitudes during the reopening of the Argentine democratic period in the 1980s. In particular, I analyse the most important transformations of feminisms in this period from what Julieta Kirwood defined as the "knots of feminist politics".