Movimientos sociales y violencia contra las mujeres: resistencias, obstáculos y propuestas emancipatorias

Abstract

In spite of having a transformative character or even having adopted an anti-sexist discourse, social movements constitute spaces for the reproduction of sexism and gender violence. The union around a common claim and the intensity of the relationships of friendship and trust, configure a complex scenario of affinities and interests, that break through the dynamics of the group and confer certain particularities to the social space (physical and discursive) that they occupy. We understand that this is a particularly interesting field of analysis since discursively, this type of behavior is rejected and, therefore, mechanisms for both prevention and management of violence should be activated. This research delves into the responses that these groups of political action have developed to the violence against women perpetrated among them, through a qualitative perspective that focuses on activist communities in the Basque Country. Our objective is to contribute to deepening the concrete study of violence against women by abounding in its structural nature and breaking with the traditional representation that places this violence in some social spaces and not in others.