Disciplinamiento sexualcazando brujas y ciberfeministas

Zusammenfassung

The aim of this paper is to analyze the phenomenon of online violence against women who display an explicitly feminist presence in the virtual space. In order to report the strategies of sexual discipline to which women are subjected, we relate the witch hunt of the 16th and 17th centuries, with the phenomenon of cyberharassment, a rising form of cyberviolence. We approach our object of study from a qualitative research method, through an nethnographic study of the manosphere –a set of antifeminist websites–, of its members, and their harassment techniques; as well as the cases of cyberharassment against Zoë Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian, both framed in the Gamergate movement. Our final results show that digital mechanisms of discipline –threats of physical and/or sexual violence, and the appropriation without consent of the female body– have as a consequence the submersion of feminists in a state of hypervigilance, self-control and self-censorship.