Abstract

SANTILLAN ESQUEDA, Martha. Violencia femenina, representaciones y práctica judicial: Relaciones de pareja en la ciudad de México, años cuarenta. Travesía (San Miguel de Tucumán) [online]. 2016, vol.18, n.1, pp.97-121. ISSN 2314-2707.

The article study homicidal behaviours of women -violence mostly committed against males in the domestic and sentimental context-, unravelling the social meaning of their actions during the 1940s. After the revolutionary struggle, the Governments defended the inherited patriarchal family according to which the men were providers and authority on wife and children, while women were concerned the areas of sensitivity, motherhood and household responsibility. However, coexistence at the interior of the homes presented important patterns of violence against women. This hint sets the starting point of the investigation, but avoiding to show women such as victims turned victimizers; on the contrary, the article analyses the mechanisms of homicidal female action in view of the social sense that their behaviours acquired within the framework of the environments where they were unfolded.

Keywords : Feminine violence; Representations; Judicial documents; México.

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