GENDER VIOLENCE AND CONTROL BODIES: A CASE ANALYSIS OF MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE SOUTHERN STATE OF GUANAJUATO

• Main Author: Rocío Rosas-Vargas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Autónoma Indígena de México 2014-07-01
• Series: Ra Ximhai
• Subjects: gender violence; biopolitics
• Online Access: https://drive.google.com/a/uaim.edu.mx/file/d/0B3tidJTiCU5eSTBRMTFyZVR6dVE/view
• ISSN: 1665-0441; 1665-0441

This paper derives from a research project on gender violence to students in middle and high Guanajuato. Surveys, interviews and workshops were applied were performed. During the course of the latter, the high level of youth reported being raped because you do not meet the image that are supposed to have the body that the media tells them to show. Anxiety over what is apparently not conducive indicates serious trouble and sometimes they have attempted suicide. In this sense, we approach the work from the idea that female bodies which are normalized, and where social norms of womanhood (Harcourt, 2011) will also resist. It is in bodies, socio-culturally constructed, where power games enroll. Butler (2010: 93) states that "we are exposed to others, and while this may be a condition of our desire, it also raises the possibility of subjugation and cruelty This results from the fact that the bodies are closely related to each other. through the material, the feel, language and a number of relationships without which we can not survive. "That is, the need for others, for recognition tell us that to meet our needs, we must be as we are told and if we are not then we will not get the recognition and yes cruelty, but as we can not survive and may reactions are self-destruction and violence. What then are the bodies that represent a problem?