El contexto sociocultural del patriarcado, la violencia de género y el feminicidio

Abstract

The text addresses the paradigmatic cases of gender violence by Rosa Elvira Cely –Colombia- and María da Pehna –Brazil- relating them to the socio-cultural phenomenon of patriarchy and its structures of domination, exploitation, oppression of the human being by the human being, supremacy of irrational force, systematic violence. Both situations occur within the framework of certain values of machismo, sexism, misogyny, discrimination and segregation of women. Feminicide in the case of Rosa Elvira involves the most serious expression of power and subjugation within the list of gender violence, the tolerant and permisissive institutional treatment to what happened to María da Penha, reveals the scope of the social consolidation of values unfavorable to the recognition of women's rights and freedoms. Although the criminalization of Feminicide as an autonomous and independent crime, and the legal recognition of gender-based violence, should be considered as important transformations, it should be noted that the problem is not sufficient afterwards, the problem demands the implementation of complementary prevention and education measures.