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The paper examines the message contained in video games for young audiences. The study analyzed one of the many stories that could be generated in the video game Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V). The analysis model places special emphasis on the microsequencies that build meaning to the viewer, particularly those related to the gender perspective, as an axis to identify hierarchies and power relationships. Gender violence is evident in the teenagers consumption videogame culture, which generates, transmits and reproduces a type of hegemonic and discriminatory thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on gender violence has been conducted since the sixties. The problem has been conceptualized and documented, although not necessarily looked after. Oaxaca stands out as one of the states where women are more likely to be attacked. This paper analyzes gender violence in Ayutla, a Mixe community of Oaxaca. Data were gathered through quantitative and qualitative methods. The main results are: psychological violence is the most common one; numerous cases of incest and ravishment occur; economic violence generally involves men totally abandoning women; local and State authorities exercise institutional violence by neglecting women s charges. The paper analyzes women's discursive strategies to re-signify their rights, and a successful case of rape within marriage which strengthened the struggle for such rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This writing aims to highlight from an intersectional view the dynamic tension between structural violence suffered by migrant youth university groups in Chiapas and their agency capability. The paper shows social relations between students that are mediated by sociocultural agendas around sexuality and sexual reproductive health. Recommendations for analysis and attention to the violence arising from the findings are given; in addition, this article provides information on intercultural fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we reflect about acts of discrimination and violence in gender relationship in the university environment in the everyday life as tacit implications of the hidden gender curriculum. We try to distinguish the possibilities of generating gender interaction processes based on principles of effective equality. The theoretical contributions of this category are elements that guide to reflection. We used qualitative and quantitative methodology. Participants were students and teachers of human sciences at the Autonomous University of Tlaxcala. The findings highlight that in spite of "politically correct" answers in favor of the equality and non-discrimination, the practices of discrimination, violence and sexism are maintained. For change, teachers need to be made aware of discrimination of gender and must assume greater engagement and sensitivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we outline some of the research results of a larger work which studies the Bolivian migration from a gender perspective, as well as the impact of the institutional practices that determine the transnational experience. In a global scene of restrictive rules concerning the human mobility, we notice how control and dominance strategies are present in ideologies and symbolic mechanisms. Women options in the migration process are trapped through them. We propose to recognize the symbolic and institutional violence that pressures migrants during their migration journey, focusing on understanding the ideological content - sexism and marianism - in which they are based on. We present an analysis of the instrumented ways of applying violence against Bolivian migrant women and its families from the social action practices implemented at origin and destination (transnational perspective). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the representations and cinema narrative models around two topics, women and violence, in a period from the forties to the present day. It is a contemporary look that aims to identify the speech, the repertoire and the main dimensions filmed in movies that include scenes about the topic just described. The aim of this study is to propose a reflection and a discussion around the role of cinema as a transmitting agent of violence against women, in movies that are not about violence. Through content analysis of different types of movie genres, from an evolutionary and comparative perspective, and limited to films that are not violent per se, we analyze male violence against women from physical and verbal nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the topic of implicit gender violence in Mexican song and its dissemination through radio addresses. It is an approach to the devastation of the human dignity of women by songwriters that have softened the aggression for free broadcasting. From oldies to present day, composers, interpreters and communicators, in full government complacency and a close relationship with a male training, have created and disseminated androcentrism music and have sold a premise: women are not worthy of man. It is part of feminist positions; history of radio as a social phenomenon, the forgotten law; music as an element of socialization to reach a point of agreement: remove broadcasting any kind of violence against women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at reflecting on the ambiguity of the term violence and its practical use in the field of social sciences. It also exposes its main meanings trying to think about the consequences that choosing any of them entails, debates on the usefulness of the concept given its apparent polysemy and discusses the possibility of accepting a minimum transcultural definition. Finally, it attempts to answer the question about which concept is best suited for use as a research tool in the Colombian political conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we analyze the results of an assessment of the current situation of gender violence in different scenarios, in Sonora, Mexico, based on data from the National Survey on the Dynamics of Household Relation-ships (2006). Violence more frequently reported by women was that of community. Mobbing and bullying occur in smaller proportions. The results suggest the need of expanding areas of analysis in Endireh to enhance its ability to identify violence in different settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gender violence is one of the major issues that society faces. During the last few years, important legislative and interventional changes have been carried out, in order to adapt to the specific nature of this type of crime. Because of the increase in the number of men that have been convicted of gender violence, and taking into account their general characteristics (in most of the cases it is their first crime), penal law offers an opportunity for intervention. One of the most novel measures imposed by the judges for these types of crimes is that, instead of giving jail sentences, they sentence the offenders to attend psychological treatment programs that deal with gender violence. This paper describes the experience with the application of a psycho-social intervention program with a gender perspective. We analyze the sample's sociodemographic profile, and, in order to evaluate the program, we also use scales that measure gender ideology, beliefs about intimate relationships, and attitudes towards gender violence. Results showed that it is important to support and promote the intervention with this type of offender as a way to prevent new episodes of gender violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on data on a very wide spectrum of behavior, attitudes and stereotypes through which gender discrimination manifests itself, this paper introduces and sketches in broad strokes the current situation of gender equality and gender violence in elementary and secondary schools in Mexico. The sample included 395 public elementary and secondary schools nation. wide; questionnaires were applied to 26 319 boys and girls. Among the most important findings are that: a) two thirds of the boys and the girls reported having been physically assaulted in the last two years; b) 6.3% of the boys and girls said spontaneously that the first thing they would change about their school would be to reduce violence, and c) that psychological aggression has the highest incidence and is directed towards both boys and girls, but has a greater effect on the latter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Violence is a phenomenon that can take manifold modalities and generate consequences difficult to detect. The objectives of this paper is to analyze violence and the rape myths acceptance, considering both possible victims, women and men. The study was made in 300 university students. The instruments used where the Violence Acceptance Scale and the Rape Myth Acceptance Scale. There were significant differences between sex, group of age and type of discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On December 1999, the UN General Assembly designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Thus, governments, international and non-governmental organizations were invited to develop activities to raise public awareness about the problem on that day. Since 1981 activist women marked November 25 as the day against violence. This paper pretends to make some reflections about violence against women, considering that this is a political, social, cultural, legal and human rights-related issue, but also a severe public health problem. Mental health researchers and professionals should be aware of the relevance of this phenomenon and its multiple manifestations, including sexual abuse, incest, forced prostitution, and sexual harassment in streets, institutions and domestic contexts as well as violence in intimate relations, rape and femicides. Men are the main perpetrators of these acts against women and girls. For this reason, the problem should be understood from a gender perspective that includes the analysis of power issues. The possibilities of mental health researchers and professionals to contribute to eliminate violence against women are discussed, including the need to review any obstacles which difficult changing beliefs, values, institutions and practices that engender and reproduce violence in women and men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]