New challenges for addressing gender violence:

How so you think masculinity/s in key to public policy?

Abstract

Gender violence has flagellated societies throughout history. In recent times the theme has become visible, through information massification, different approach perspectives and new knowledge production that problematize them.

In this paper’s perspective, we consider gender violence as one of the consequences of naturalization of the hierarchical relationship between genders that inscribes the masculine in a dominant role and the feminine in a subordinate, subaltern role. In this manner, violence against woman must be read in cultural key.

The present analyses the present vision that determines the way public policies on gender violence are being designed today, to then question the constructions on which these have been established and grounded. The challenge is to think about a reformulation of the look on the role of the men in modern society and the importance of its incorporation in the planning of new interventions.