Transformación de las representaciones sociales del ser mujer: en tres voces de mujeres que fueron víctimas de violencia sexual en el marco del conflicto armado colombiano

Abstract

This article is developed based on the research “Sexual Violence in the framework of Colombian Internal Armed Conflict: Psychosocial and narrative effects around the processes of reparation with women leaders ”1, the process was carried out within the framework of the Action Research using interactive participation techniques and conversational scenarios. The participants are three women leaders, who were victims of sexual violence in the Colombian armed conflict and who they come from the departments of Antioquia and Putumayo. The objective of this article is to present the first part of the investigation, evidencing the understandings around the configuration of the system sex / gender in the places from which the participants come, the senses given to the experience of sexual violence and the transformations in social representations that Participants build around being a woman. Among the main findings is that the presence of armed actors in the contexts influences and crystallizes the configuration of the system sex / gender, also the senses given by the participants to the experience of sexual violence they differ from each other since they are related to the different identities that they assume and finally finds that the transformations in social representations around the sense of being women has enabled and empowered their empowerment and leadership through the transgression of social restrictions and impositions.