Cilia Willems
Biographic Data
| ID | 658734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cilia Willems |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cilia |
| FAMILY NAME | Willems |
| SIGNATURE | WILLEMS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8272-498X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Posibilidades de la Inteligencia Artificial (IA) para la prevención de la violencia de género
Introducción y objetivos: La aparición masiva de herramientas de inteligencia artificial (IA) conlleva un desafío importante para las investigaciones feministas: sus sesgos de género en detrimento de las mujeres. Este estudio explora las posibilidades de la IA como herramienta en la detección de la violencia de género en las películas y las series a través del análisis fílmico, usando el test de Bechdel-Wallace. Metodología: Para ello se diseñó u…
Species of Bees: Fictional film as a tool for queer pedagogies
Films on trans children often portray transgenderism as a disorder with a tragic ending for the protagonists, thereby ignoring the existing research on children being capable of expressing their own gender. In this article, we perform a close reading of the feature film 20,000 Species of Bees from a queer and feminist perspective. We focus on the potential of the film as a tool for educational practice as part of queer pedagogies. This coming-of-…
Gender Bias, Stereotypes and Diversity on Digital Platforms
Social media offer young people opportunities to socialize and experiment with identity formation, but also give rise to the gendering of digital practices. Gender bias and the platformization of gender performance concur in the masculinization of platforms that are considered most valuable in marketing terms, in gender stereotypes and hate speech towards anything that does not conform to the norm. In addition, these digital platforms are spaces …
Las biografías LGTBIQ+ en España, de los expedientes policiales a Youtube
Las biografías, inmersas en las convenciones narrativas de una cultura y de una época (Plummer, 1995), contribuyen a vincular las acciones humanas relevantes con historias socialmente comprensibles (Polkinghorne, 1988: Butler, 1991). Los relatos biográficos LGTBIQ+ en España han vivido en los últimos cuarenta años una rápida transformación. De una construcción biográfica LGTBIQ+ gubernamental en forma de expedientes policiales durante la dictadur…
Capítulo 4. De la otredad abstracta a las «otras mujeres»: Dilemas éticos y metodológicos del uso de experiencias femeninas en los estudios culturales
Ahora que el feminismo ha consolidado un espacio en la cultura popular, el activismo y la academia, deberíamos evitar triunfalismos y preguntarnos por las dinámicas comerciales, neoliberales, burguesas y eurocéntricas que reaparecen en los espacios de producción de conocimiento cuando no les prestamos la suficiente atención. Por un lado, las mujeres investigadoras están sumergidas en las mismas culturas que quieren investigar y sus identidades y …
Fe-MI-nismo en las redes sociales: Riesgos y oportunidades para el feminismo contemporáneo
Las redes sociales se han convertido en un espacio imprescindible para la visibilización y defensa del feminismo. Sin embargo, en estos entornos también conviven discursos y producciones profeministas, posfeministas y antifeministas. Si bien el feminismo se ha fortalecido a través de las redes sociales, también los ataques online contra las mujeres se han intensificado. Por otra parte, los discursos posfeministas se han consolidado actuando como …
Young Women, Social Media and Antigypsyism in Spain: An Experience of an Online Workshop with Roma Girls and Women
Social media such as Twitter and Facebook are currently sites where right-wing (political) groups in Spain find easy ways to spread organised and random hate speech towards minority groups, among which the Roma community. However, members of these groups, especially the younger generations, are rapidly learning how to protect themselves from racist and sexist online attacks, raise their voices and make their realities more visible, creating count…
Lucha feminista gitana en España, lucha interseccional: El combate contra el Antigitanismo en las redes sociales en España
Este artículo tiene como objetivo recoger cómo el Antigitanismo en España es confrontado actualmente por las mujeres gitanas, especialmente en sus discursos en las redes sociales. Mediante la identificación y análisis cualitativo de espacios y herramientas online que tiene a su disposición el feminismo gitano, principalmente Facebook y Twitter, analizaremos los principales temas y estrategias que surgen entorno a la articulación entre la lucha fe…
Gender, Voice and Online Space: Expressions of Feminism on Social Media in Spain
Feminism’s current momentum, encouraged by movements such as #NiUnaMenos or #MeToo, has caused many social media agents to adopt some degree of feminism as a part of their online image or personal brand. ‘Being a feminist,’ for some, has become a marketing strategy in times of great polarisation between progressive forces and a reactionary backlash against feminism. The appropriation of feminism by the global market challenges public opinion, med…
Lost in Transition? Digital trans activism on Youtube
This article intends to contribute to a novel research area - the construction of critical transgender narratives on Youtube – examining how some Spanish trans youtubers shift the focus from the ‘fleshy metamorphosis’ [Barnett, J. T. (2015). Fleshy metamorphosis: Temporal pedagogies of transsexual counterpublics. In L. G. Spencer & J. C. Capuzza (Eds.), Transgender communication studies: Histories, trends, and trajectories (pp. 155–172). Lexingto…
Contrapúblicos en YouTube: El caso del colectivo trans
The accessibility and democratization of online media has allowed voices to emerge around issues with low visibility. In this study we are looking at the trans community. Whereas publics are generated in mainstream media, counterpublics emerge from the margins, generating alternative spaces for debate and discussion. YouTube has emerged as a space for collaborative learning and participation, breaking the boundaries between public/private and col…
Chonis and pijas: Slut-shaming and double standards in online performances among Spanish teens
In a context of demonization of the working class in Western societies, the choni has become an epitome of the female incarnation of the failed underclass in Spain. During our focus group discussions with 16- to 20-year-olds, girls evoked clear-cut images of the tasteless and sexualized choni as a stigma to avoid, in contrast with the more classy pija. This article deals with gender and class regarding sexual scrutiny on social media in Spain. Yo…
Creación de significado online: Recoger las voces de los y las fans de series televisivas
Quienes siguen series televisivas, en ocasiones, comparten sus opiniones a través de espacios online más o menos institucionalizados. Estas prácticas nos permiten acceder a un conjunto de discursos e interacciones que, si bien no han sido inducidos en un contexto de investigación, proporcionan una gran cantidad de información sobre las lecturas y las apropiaciones que hacen fans y detractores de estos productos mediáticos. A partir de los comenta…
Portrayals of Caring Masculinities in Fiction Film: The Male Caregiver in Still Mine, Intouchables and Nebraska
This article analyzes the male caregiving characters Driss in Intouchables (2011), Craig in Still Mine (2012) and David in Nebraska (2013) in terms of hegemonic masculinity and its variations (Connell 1990; Connell and Messerschmidt 2005). Caregiving is a complex social situation normally assumed within kinship relationships, and traditionally attributed to women. We briefly review feminist analysis of caregiving since the 1970s (Fine and Glendin…
Gendered ageing bodies in popular media culture
Grace and Frankie (2015 to present), the Netflix original about two 70-year-old women who become unlikely friends after their respective husbands confess they have been in love with each other for
From bullfighter’s lover to female matador: The evolution of Madonna’s gender displays in her music videos
Throughout her artistic career, Madonna has been notorious for her provocative gender displays. Academic literature has highlighted the ambivalence of many of her performances in this regard: although she occupies masculine spaces and roles, she often adopts positions that are in line with a traditional kind of femininity or with representation patterns that are part of and reinforce patriarchal discourse. Our analysis of Madonna’s music videos r…
Looking beyond the B-side from the G-side: The under- and misrepresentation of the Roma in the media
In this article we present the results of two different studies What Of Us Is In This? (carried out in 2006 at the University of Lleida and supported by the Catalan Audiovisual Council) and Roots&Routes (carried out between 2005 and 2008 at the University of Barcelona). These studies, on the one hand, reach the same conclusions using different methodologies and, on the other, illustrate that the results obtained from engaging in a dialogue with R…
Gendered ageing bodies in popular media culture
Grace and Frankie (2015 to present), the Netflix original about two 70-year-old women who become unlikely friends after their respective husbands confess they have been in love with each other for
Portrayals of Caring Masculinities in Fiction Film: The Male Caregiver in Still Mine, Intouchables and Nebraska
This article analyzes the male caregiving characters Driss in Intouchables (2011), Craig in Still Mine (2012) and David in Nebraska (2013) in terms of hegemonic masculinity and its variations (Connell 1990; Connell and Messerschmidt 2005). Caregiving is a complex social situation normally assumed within kinship relationships, and traditionally attributed to women. We briefly review feminist analysis of caregiving since the 1970s (Fine and Glendin…
From bullfighter’s lover to female matador: The evolution of Madonna’s gender displays in her music videos
Throughout her artistic career, Madonna has been notorious for her provocative gender displays. Academic literature has highlighted the ambivalence of many of her performances in this regard: although she occupies masculine spaces and roles, she often adopts positions that are in line with a traditional kind of femininity or with representation patterns that are part of and reinforce patriarchal discourse. Our analysis of Madonna’s music videos r…
Contrapúblicos en YouTube: El caso del colectivo trans
The accessibility and democratization of online media has allowed voices to emerge around issues with low visibility. In this study we are looking at the trans community. Whereas publics are generated in mainstream media, counterpublics emerge from the margins, generating alternative spaces for debate and discussion. YouTube has emerged as a space for collaborative learning and participation, breaking the boundaries between public/private and col…
Looking beyond the B-side from the G-side: The under- and misrepresentation of the Roma in the media
In this article we present the results of two different studies What Of Us Is In This? (carried out in 2006 at the University of Lleida and supported by the Catalan Audiovisual Council) and Roots&Routes (carried out between 2005 and 2008 at the University of Barcelona). These studies, on the one hand, reach the same conclusions using different methodologies and, on the other, illustrate that the results obtained from engaging in a dialogue with R…
Looking beyond the B-side from the G-side: The under- and misrepresentation of the Roma in the media
In this article we present the results of two different studies What Of Us Is In This? (carried out in 2006 at the University of Lleida and supported by the Catalan Audiovisual Council) and Roots&Routes (carried out between 2005 and 2008 at the University of Barcelona). These studies, on the one hand, reach the same conclusions using different methodologies and, on the other, illustrate that the results obtained from engaging in a dialogue with R…
From bullfighter’s lover to female matador: The evolution of Madonna’s gender displays in her music videos
Throughout her artistic career, Madonna has been notorious for her provocative gender displays. Academic literature has highlighted the ambivalence of many of her performances in this regard: although she occupies masculine spaces and roles, she often adopts positions that are in line with a traditional kind of femininity or with representation patterns that are part of and reinforce patriarchal discourse. Our analysis of Madonna’s music videos r…
Portrayals of Caring Masculinities in Fiction Film: The Male Caregiver in Still Mine, Intouchables and Nebraska
This article analyzes the male caregiving characters Driss in Intouchables (2011), Craig in Still Mine (2012) and David in Nebraska (2013) in terms of hegemonic masculinity and its variations (Connell 1990; Connell and Messerschmidt 2005). Caregiving is a complex social situation normally assumed within kinship relationships, and traditionally attributed to women. We briefly review feminist analysis of caregiving since the 1970s (Fine and Glendin…
Gendered ageing bodies in popular media culture
Grace and Frankie (2015 to present), the Netflix original about two 70-year-old women who become unlikely friends after their respective husbands confess they have been in love with each other for
Chonis and pijas: Slut-shaming and double standards in online performances among Spanish teens
In a context of demonization of the working class in Western societies, the choni has become an epitome of the female incarnation of the failed underclass in Spain. During our focus group discussions with 16- to 20-year-olds, girls evoked clear-cut images of the tasteless and sexualized choni as a stigma to avoid, in contrast with the more classy pija. This article deals with gender and class regarding sexual scrutiny on social media in Spain. Yo…
Creación de significado online: Recoger las voces de los y las fans de series televisivas
Quienes siguen series televisivas, en ocasiones, comparten sus opiniones a través de espacios online más o menos institucionalizados. Estas prácticas nos permiten acceder a un conjunto de discursos e interacciones que, si bien no han sido inducidos en un contexto de investigación, proporcionan una gran cantidad de información sobre las lecturas y las apropiaciones que hacen fans y detractores de estos productos mediáticos. A partir de los comenta…
Contrapúblicos en YouTube: El caso del colectivo trans
The accessibility and democratization of online media has allowed voices to emerge around issues with low visibility. In this study we are looking at the trans community. Whereas publics are generated in mainstream media, counterpublics emerge from the margins, generating alternative spaces for debate and discussion. YouTube has emerged as a space for collaborative learning and participation, breaking the boundaries between public/private and col…
Lucha feminista gitana en España, lucha interseccional: El combate contra el Antigitanismo en las redes sociales en España
Este artículo tiene como objetivo recoger cómo el Antigitanismo en España es confrontado actualmente por las mujeres gitanas, especialmente en sus discursos en las redes sociales. Mediante la identificación y análisis cualitativo de espacios y herramientas online que tiene a su disposición el feminismo gitano, principalmente Facebook y Twitter, analizaremos los principales temas y estrategias que surgen entorno a la articulación entre la lucha fe…
Gender, Voice and Online Space: Expressions of Feminism on Social Media in Spain
Feminism’s current momentum, encouraged by movements such as #NiUnaMenos or #MeToo, has caused many social media agents to adopt some degree of feminism as a part of their online image or personal brand. ‘Being a feminist,’ for some, has become a marketing strategy in times of great polarisation between progressive forces and a reactionary backlash against feminism. The appropriation of feminism by the global market challenges public opinion, med…
Lost in Transition? Digital trans activism on Youtube
This article intends to contribute to a novel research area - the construction of critical transgender narratives on Youtube – examining how some Spanish trans youtubers shift the focus from the ‘fleshy metamorphosis’ [Barnett, J. T. (2015). Fleshy metamorphosis: Temporal pedagogies of transsexual counterpublics. In L. G. Spencer & J. C. Capuzza (Eds.), Transgender communication studies: Histories, trends, and trajectories (pp. 155–172). Lexingto…
Fe-MI-nismo en las redes sociales: Riesgos y oportunidades para el feminismo contemporáneo
Las redes sociales se han convertido en un espacio imprescindible para la visibilización y defensa del feminismo. Sin embargo, en estos entornos también conviven discursos y producciones profeministas, posfeministas y antifeministas. Si bien el feminismo se ha fortalecido a través de las redes sociales, también los ataques online contra las mujeres se han intensificado. Por otra parte, los discursos posfeministas se han consolidado actuando como …
Young Women, Social Media and Antigypsyism in Spain: An Experience of an Online Workshop with Roma Girls and Women
Social media such as Twitter and Facebook are currently sites where right-wing (political) groups in Spain find easy ways to spread organised and random hate speech towards minority groups, among which the Roma community. However, members of these groups, especially the younger generations, are rapidly learning how to protect themselves from racist and sexist online attacks, raise their voices and make their realities more visible, creating count…
Capítulo 4. De la otredad abstracta a las «otras mujeres»: Dilemas éticos y metodológicos del uso de experiencias femeninas en los estudios culturales
Ahora que el feminismo ha consolidado un espacio en la cultura popular, el activismo y la academia, deberíamos evitar triunfalismos y preguntarnos por las dinámicas comerciales, neoliberales, burguesas y eurocéntricas que reaparecen en los espacios de producción de conocimiento cuando no les prestamos la suficiente atención. Por un lado, las mujeres investigadoras están sumergidas en las mismas culturas que quieren investigar y sus identidades y …
Species of Bees: Fictional film as a tool for queer pedagogies
Films on trans children often portray transgenderism as a disorder with a tragic ending for the protagonists, thereby ignoring the existing research on children being capable of expressing their own gender. In this article, we perform a close reading of the feature film 20,000 Species of Bees from a queer and feminist perspective. We focus on the potential of the film as a tool for educational practice as part of queer pedagogies. This coming-of-…
Gender Bias, Stereotypes and Diversity on Digital Platforms
Social media offer young people opportunities to socialize and experiment with identity formation, but also give rise to the gendering of digital practices. Gender bias and the platformization of gender performance concur in the masculinization of platforms that are considered most valuable in marketing terms, in gender stereotypes and hate speech towards anything that does not conform to the norm. In addition, these digital platforms are spaces …
Las biografías LGTBIQ+ en España, de los expedientes policiales a Youtube
Las biografías, inmersas en las convenciones narrativas de una cultura y de una época (Plummer, 1995), contribuyen a vincular las acciones humanas relevantes con historias socialmente comprensibles (Polkinghorne, 1988: Butler, 1991). Los relatos biográficos LGTBIQ+ en España han vivido en los últimos cuarenta años una rápida transformación. De una construcción biográfica LGTBIQ+ gubernamental en forma de expedientes policiales durante la dictadur…
Posibilidades de la Inteligencia Artificial (IA) para la prevención de la violencia de género
Introducción y objetivos: La aparición masiva de herramientas de inteligencia artificial (IA) conlleva un desafío importante para las investigaciones feministas: sus sesgos de género en detrimento de las mujeres. Este estudio explora las posibilidades de la IA como herramienta en la detección de la violencia de género en las películas y las series a través del análisis fílmico, usando el test de Bechdel-Wallace. Metodología: Para ello se diseñó u…
Sociology (12 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)