Honor, Control y Violencia: una mirada sobre la socialización patriarcal de los varones occidentales
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Sambade, Iván
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2011-11
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La lacra social de la violencia contra las mujeres ha puesto de manifiesto que los varones occidentales siguen actuando como agentes de la desigualdad de género, a pesar de su educación democrática. Pierre Bourdieu ha explicado que, frente a los cambios sociales hacia la igualdad de los sexos del siglo pasado, las estructuras patriarcales se han perpetuado, reproduciendo la dominación simbólica de mujeres y varones. De este modo, la moral androcéntrica del honor sigue induciendo a los varones a confirmar su masculinidad como sujetos de poder de la esfera social pública. Este proceso identitario se desarrollaría mediante la pragmática masculina del control: un conjunto de prácticas de autocontrol, históricamente legitimadas por el discurso filosófico, que dispone la violencia en la conducta masculina como recurso de sujeción de las mujeres.
Abstract: The social evil of violence against women has shown that Western men keep on acting as agents of gender inequality despite their democratic education. According to Pierre Bourdieu’s explanations, patriarchal structures have perpetuated themselves, reproducing the symbolic domination of women and men, contrary to social change towards gender equality in the last century. Thus, androcentric morality of honour still induces men to confirm their masculinity as subjects of power in the public social sphere. This identification process would be developed through the male pragmatics of control: a group of self-control practices historically legitimized by the philosophical discourse, which internalizes violence in male behavior as a means of subjection of women.
Abstract: The social evil of violence against women has shown that Western men keep on acting as agents of gender inequality despite their democratic education. According to Pierre Bourdieu’s explanations, patriarchal structures have perpetuated themselves, reproducing the symbolic domination of women and men, contrary to social change towards gender equality in the last century. Thus, androcentric morality of honour still induces men to confirm their masculinity as subjects of power in the public social sphere. This identification process would be developed through the male pragmatics of control: a group of self-control practices historically legitimized by the philosophical discourse, which internalizes violence in male behavior as a means of subjection of women.