Abstract

CASTILLO, Rocío A.. Shyness, gender and social mobilization. Debate fem. [online]. 2019, vol.58, pp.53-75.  Epub Mar 19, 2021. ISSN 2594-066X.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cieg.2594066xe.2019.58.03.

Shyness is an emotional state that has rarely been studied in the social sciences, even though it is an emotion that is very much present in the lives of women. This article analyzes shyness from a gender perspective to show that it is a fundamental emotional state in the construction of gendered power relations. At the same time, on the basis of an ethnographic study on two migrant-based organizations in Texas, it proposes the importance of emotional subversion, in other words, of subjective transformations (in this case, of shyness) as fundamental in the processes of social mobilization of women in high-risk contexts. Accordingly, it encourages future academic research to not only look at those objective resources that motivate women to mobilize, but above all at the subjective level, since this is the place where they reconstruct themselves as women activists.

Keywords : Emotions; Gender; Shyness; Social movements; Women activists; Migration.

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