Abstract

FEMENIAS, María Luisa. Human Rights and Gender: Violent Stories . Frónesis [online]. 2009, vol.16, n.2, pp.340-363. ISSN 1315-6268.

Latin America is not on the sidelines of the high degrees of violence against women recorded on a world level. What factors favor it so that its extension, depth and persistence are almost unperceived, both in public as well as private spaces? What proposals sustain it? This study will propose some possible kinds of invisibilization for violence, based first on the analysis of language as an invisibilizer of violence and a place for the construction of subjects with gender blindness. Second, it will examine the violence that follows from racial discrimination at its sex-gender intersection. Third, it will approach extreme violence in rapes and mutilations followed by death, taking as a paradigmatic but not unique case, deaths in the City of Juarez. Finally, the study will make a general evaluation of the route that has been examined.

Keywords : Violence; symbolic violence; discourse; murder.