Although political strategies and outcomes do not derive directly, immediately, and easily from t... more Although political strategies and outcomes do not derive directly, immediately, and easily from theory, it nevertheless has particular political implications, and is an important reference point for practice. Reflecting on gender-based violence from the theory of social reproduction demonstrates that this violence cannot be attributed in an essentialist way to men as such, but that the positioning and construction of certain persons as men is part of a structure that in some cases can give some power to those who identify as men. However, not all men in the system occupy the same position of power, nor do all women, and there are different systemic lines of subordination that enable, encourage, and generate different forms of gendered violence. Forms of gender-based violence gravitate around the gendered division of labor and other elements of the system of production, as well as around patriarchal heteronormative patterns, values, expectations, and ideologemes that reinforce the system. Namely, in order to maintain the capitalist division between productive and reproductive work, a naturalized heteronormative division of gender roles within the family nucleus has been established, which is also transmitted and consolidated in all other spaces outside the household.
Although political strategies and outcomes do not derive directly, immediately, and easily from t... more Although political strategies and outcomes do not derive directly, immediately, and easily from theory, it nevertheless has particular political implications, and is an important reference point for practice. Reflecting on gender-based violence from the theory of social reproduction demonstrates that this violence cannot be attributed in an essentialist way to men as such, but that the positioning and construction of certain persons as men is part of a structure that in some cases can give some power to those who identify as men. However, not all men in the system occupy the same position of power, nor do all women, and there are different systemic lines of subordination that enable, encourage, and generate different forms of gendered violence. Forms of gender-based violence gravitate around the gendered division of labor and other elements of the system of production, as well as around patriarchal heteronormative patterns, values, expectations, and ideologemes that reinforce the system. Namely, in order to maintain the capitalist division between productive and reproductive work, a naturalized heteronormative division of gender roles within the family nucleus has been established, which is also transmitted and consolidated in all other spaces outside the household.
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