Keywords
legal process
women
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Abstract
Upon the basis of a previous study1, the present article will discuss the legal implications of the position acquired by women who have experienced intimate partner violence, attempting to provide a strong contextual, multidimensional, and complex view of this issue. Its starting point is the conceptualization of the notion of violence through a binary sex/gender matrix that functions as a power device, which will allows us to tackle the problem of gender violence from the notion of structural violence. In turn, this conceptualization leads us to analyze how the experience of women who denounce their partners before the legal establishment for violent acts against them is captured by a prosecution device which technifies, reduces, and redirects women’s political/subjective claims. The final effect of such capture is the nourishment of the gender control device through the imposition of an ideal legal image of the victim which re-victimizes women.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.