Resumen

CEVALLOS-CASTELLS., Mgtr. María Rosa  y  VAREA-VITERI., Dra. Soledad. Indigenous women leaders and access to abortion in Ecuador: A view from cyberfeminism and the ethics of care. Íconos [online]. 2024, n.80, pp.73-89. ISSN 1390-8065.  https://doi.org/10.17141/iconos.80.2024.6120.

Articulating the ethics of care and cyberfeminism, this article analyzes how imaginaries about abortion and access to abortion have changed in the central highlands of Ecuador. For this purpose, a qualitative methodology is used through semi-structured interviews with a group of young Indigenous women leaders in the province of Chimborazo. In this province, abortion has gradually ceased to be a latent and silenced issue in community agendas and has become part of the conversations of women’s groups. The article illustrates how the influence of the fourth wave of feminism and the Green Wave movement, linked to the use of social networks, has permeated certain community discourses and has influenced the possibility for young Indigenous women in this province to access information and to exercise, in the company of other women, their right to abortion. In this sense, it is concluded that the use of online social networks promotes the weaving of offline networks, which allows women, beyond their geographical location, to have more access to information and, therefore, more possibility of exercising their sexual and reproductive rights.

Palabras clave : abortion; cyberfeminism; care; feminisms; Indigenous women; social networks.

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