TITLE:
Political Violence against Women and Its Reverberations—A Perspective
AUTHORS:
Paula Gabriela Mendes Lima
KEYWORDS:
Violence, Politics, Women, Anthropology and Public Spaces
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.12 No.8,
August
29,
2025
ABSTRACT: This text is a suggestion for defining the term political violence against women from the perspective of political philosophy. Naming this phenomenon and conceptualizing it from this perspective seems fundamental in order to give visibility to this form of manifestation of violence and to elucidate it as a device from which legal and political systems should be instigated to move towards the creation of new structures. We propose to think of political violence against women as the manifestation of an anthropology of women and as a process resulting from the language and structure of male domination in current models of public spaces. This is descriptive and exploratory research, the aim of which is to describe the characteristics of a particular phenomenon: political gender violence, and aims to explain it. To this end, it uses the deductive method and bibliographical research with the reading and analysis of already published materials, such as books, articles, papers, periodicals, texts on the internet, interviews, among others. The results indicate that political violence against women is a form of violence perpetuated by social structure and historical gender stereotypes.