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Taxonomy of homicides of women in intimate partner relationships
2018
RESUMEN La prevención de la violencia contra la pareja supone un problema que ha suscitado gran interés a nivel internacional. El homicidio de pareja es el exponente más grave, aunque su prevalencia sea baja y su etiología compleja. Este trabajo revisa brevemente la descripción del problema desde la perspectiva de género y la existencia de asimetría, la perspectiva de la violencia y su descripción de factores de riesgo diferenciales y el modelo ecológico que relaciona variables personales, contextuales y comunitarias, presentando una propuesta más integradora. Se describen los estudios que analizan y comparan perfiles de homicidas, así como la situación en materia de evaluación del riesgo, …
Building Resilience due to violence: The struggle of Mexican Communities
2015
In Psychology the term resilience refers to man’s ability to respond to stressful events in a positive manner. Cases of feminicide in Mexican society provide significant information regarding the relationship between violence and the development of a capacity for resistance in order to preserve life in the long term. Given that the promotion of empowered actions is closely related with issues of community, power and precariousness, this article will discuss cultural and socio-economic factors in institutional violence against Mexican women and will provide a comprehensive look at a theoretical framework for understanding resilience within this context, starting from the relationship between…
Dissident bodies: bodies in resistance from art and feminism
2017
Resumen A lo largo de este artículo pretendemos mostrar cómo diferentes mujeres artistas han utilizado su cuerpo como un lienzo de expresión. Sus cuerpos disidentes, abiertos y llevados al extremo serán sujeto de representación y de autoafirmación, a través de los cuales empoderarse y resistir frente a las consideradas verdades absolutas patriarcales, según las cuales, las mujeres han sido representadas como objetos de placer para la miradas masculinas. Abstract Throughout this article we intend to show how different women artists have used their body as a canvas of expression. Their dissident bodies, opened and taken to the extreme, will be subject of representation and self-affirmation, t…
Taxonomy of homicides of women in intimate partner relationships
2018
Intimate partner violence prevention is a challenge that has received wide international interest. Homicide is the most serious result of this type of violence, although its prevalence is low and its etiology is complex. This paper briefly reviews the description of the problem from a gender perspective and the existence of asymmetry, the perspective of violence and its description of differential risk factors, and the ecological model that connects personal, contextual, and societal variables, presenting a more integrative proposal. Studies analyzing and comparing homicide profiles are described, as well as the state of the art regarding risk assessment, with special attention to the impli…