Communication, decolonisation and gender: intersectional paths of emancipation. The case of Argentina

My thesis will revolve around the path of women’s movements in the field of communication in Argentina, highlighting their central role in the bottom-up construction of protections and rights that have set an example for the rest of Latin America, as well as in paving the way for the development of internal media policies that include a gender perspective, which has only recently occurred. The first chapter will lay the theoretical foundations, aimed at contextualising and circumscribing the relevance of a study that sheds light on how Argentine women, although twice victims, as an oppressed category in a subcontinent in turn subjugated to the Western model, have been able to carve out an unprecedented space for themselves in a key sector for a relatively young democracy: communication to activate and mobilise social change. The second chapter will therefore be devoted to an in-depth analysis of traditional and digital media in Argentina, from their trajectory over time, to the way women have been represented in them. In light of the findings, it will then be possible in the third chapter to compare Ley 26.522 of 2009 and Ley 27.635 of 2021, analysing similarities and differences.