Hernández GY, Delgado TAN

Language: Spanish
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Page: 243-268
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ABSTRACT

Violence against women in a couple relationship is an old social problem, but its recognition as a research object traces back to the seventies. Its study is still open to a rich theoretical field, especially from perspectives allowing new readings. Cultural Sociology, in complement with Gender Theory, contributes to this goal. In Cuba, the study of the geographical area of Moa reveals high statistical records of such violence. The results obtained in this research emerge from the methodological strategy followed that triangulates data, informants, techniques, and methods. The study incorporates the concept geographical space to the analysis in order to understand the specificities that this concept implies to Cuban sociocultural diversity. It also incorporates a redefinition of the concepts patriarchal culture and violence against women. An analysis of the positions from which violence against women is read as a cultural text is made, based on narratives that construct the patriarchal culture, as well as the practice of physical punishment to women in particular geographical areas, emerging as codes-texts of discipline. Finally, an assessment of its contribution to sociological science is analyzed.