Violence against Women in Latin America

2013 ◽  
pp. 24-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Lucía Gaviria
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Violence Against Women

Gender and Coloniality: From Low-Intensity Communal Patriarchy to High-Intensity Colonial-Modern Patriarchy

Hypatia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 781-799
Author(s):  
Rita Laura Segato ◽  
Pedro Monque
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
High Intensity ◽  
Expert Witness ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Dual Structure ◽  
Low Intensity ◽  
Gender System

AbstractThis essay collects four decades of my own reflections, as an anthropologist and feminist, on gender and coloniality across various contexts in Latin America. It also highlights the decolonial methodology and vocabulary that I have had to develop in my various roles as scholar, public intellectual, and expert witness over the years. Briefly, what I present here is a decolonial feminist perspective that argues for the existence of a patriarchal political order in communal societies before colonization. Yet, in my view, precolonial gender has a dual structure that is plural in essence and differs markedly from the binary gender structure of colonial-modern societies, which works in terms of a One and its marginalized others. As I argue, the capturing and transformation of precolonial dual gender structures by the modern gender system exacerbates inequality, increases violence against women, and disempowers them politically. For that reason, I speak of “low-intensity” and “high-intensity” patriarchal systems.

Violence Against Women in Latin America

2018 ◽  
pp. 172-173
Author(s):  
Michael J. LaRosa ◽  
Germán R. Mejía
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Violence Against Women

scholarly journals Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824401987106
Author(s):  
Marisa Bucheli ◽  
Maximo Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Country Level ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Partner Violence Against Women

We analyze individual and country factors that explain attitudes toward intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) in Latin America and the Caribbean. Most patterns at individual level are similar to the international ones: for example, approval of IPVAW is higher among women and people in rural areas or in disadvantaged socio-economic situations. The most novel contribution of our work is the study of the variables at country level: approval of IPVAW increases with poverty, fertility rate, and equal gender outcomes. It decreases with Internet access and, less robustly, with the time elapsed since the enactment of women’s suffrage.

scholarly journals Polycentricity and framing battles in the creation of regional norms on violence against women

2020 ◽  
pp. 004711782094294
Author(s):  
Anna van der Vleuten ◽  
Conny Roggeband ◽  
Anouka van Eerdewijk
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Single Source ◽  
Norm Diffusion ◽  
Global Norms ◽  
The Creation

In Latin America and Southern Africa, norms on violence against women have developed with ups and downs, not simply in reaction to global norms, but sometimes even preceding global norm diffusion or surpassing it in terms of scope, framing and binding character. The classic global-to-local account with a single source of norm creation cannot capture these dynamics. Including the regional level in a dynamic model of norm diffusion enables us to understand the changing contents of a norm and to acknowledge transregional agency. We show (1) how norm contestation is an ongoing, multidirectional and polycentric process; (2) how the regional level opens up opportunities for feminists and femocrats; and (3) under which conditions regional norms can be both more progressive than global ones and more adapted to regional needs, and, in turn, are thus able to strengthen the ‘global’ norm.

Violence against Women and Girls with Disabilities: Latin America and the Caribbean

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luana Marques Garcia Ozemela ◽  
Diana Ortiz ◽  
Anne-Marie Urban
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
The Caribbean

Violence against Women in Latin America

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamar Diana Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Violence Against Women

Cineando

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-64
Author(s):  
Manuel Betancourt
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
The Political ◽  
First Person ◽  
Collateral Damage

The release of Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzman's La Cordillera de los Sueños (Cordillera of Dreams) prompts FQ columnist Manuel Betancourt to reflect upon the reflexive turn in recent nonfiction documentaries from Latin America. Betancourt suggests that Guzmán pioneered the wave of documentary filmmakers in the region whose work marries first-person address with political urgency. Broadening his focus to include Petra Costa and Tatiana Huezo, whose films The Edge of Democracy and Tempestad explore the political collateral damage in Brazil and the violence against women in Mexico respectively, Betancourt argues that these filmmakers' embrace of self-reflexive strategies places them at the forefront of a vital nonfiction tradition that puts personal narratives front and center.

Gender violence protests will mount in Latin America

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Significant Drop ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The World

Subject Gender violence in Latin America. Significance In mid-October Argentine women took to the street to protest over the rape and murder of a 16-year-old schoolgirl. Similar protests against violence against women (VAW) have taken place across Latin America, home to seven of the top ten countries for femicide in the world. Regional marches and protests seek to shine a light on the pervasive culture of 'machismo', and call on judicial institutions to break the cycle of impunity. Impacts Although 16 countries have passed comprehensive laws against VAW, the rate of femicide is not falling concomitantly. VAW laws will not see a significant drop in femicide until cultures of 'machismo' and impunity are diminished. This will further involve creating alternative notions of masculinity -- a long-term challenge.

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