Studies on gender-based violence against women

Within the framework of this specialization, the International Course serves as a multidisciplinary space for theoretical and practical training, analyzing the complexity of gender-based violence, its relationship to gender inequalities, and other intersections of inequality present in all dimensions of society. Accordingly, it constitutes a learning environment on: the conceptual frameworks used in the analysis of gender-based violence against women, its manifestations, the global, regional, and national international human rights framework; the necessary legislative coherence for an efficient and effective state response; and the various approaches in public policies for prevention, awareness-raising, redress, and punishment. Furthermore, it will allow for an analysis of the degree of institutionalization of policies and strategies for addressing the problem in the countries of the region, as well as the methodologies for measuring and analyzing public costs and expenditures.

The analyses will be situated within a framework that encompasses the various intersections of inequality expressed in the diversity of women, with a view to the strategies with an intersectionality approach that are developed or should be developed in the implementation of public policies and their effects in the region.

As part of the conceptual development proposed by this course, women's autonomy will be a central theme, and its connection to public policy design is what enriches the potential applicability of this curriculum. For women, autonomy means having the capacity and the concrete conditions to freely make decisions that affect their lives.

Achieving greater autonomy requires addressing many diverse issues, including freeing women from the sole responsibility for reproductive and caregiving tasks, which includes exercising their reproductive rights; ending gender-based violence; and taking all necessary measures to ensure women's equal participation in decision-making. Physical autonomy refers to the capacity to freely decide about sexuality and reproduction, and the right to live a life free from violence.

Accordingly, this constitutes a learning field on: the conceptual frameworks present in the analysis of gender-based violence against women, its manifestations, the global, regional, and national international human rights framework; the legislative coherence required for an efficient and effective state response; and the different approaches in public policies for prevention, awareness-raising, redress, and punishment. Furthermore, it will allow for the analysis of the degree of institutionalization of policies and strategies to address the problem in the countries of the region, as well as the methodologies for measuring and analyzing public costs and expenditures.

The analyses will be situated within a framework that encompasses the various intersections of inequality expressed in the diversity of women, with a view to the strategies with an intersectionality approach that are developed or should be developed in the implementation of public policies and their effects in the region.

As part of the conceptual development proposed by this course, women's autonomy will be a central theme, and its connection to public policy design is what enriches the potential applicability of this curriculum. For women, autonomy means having the capacity and the concrete conditions to freely make decisions that affect their lives.

Achieving greater autonomy requires addressing many diverse issues, including freeing women from the sole responsibility for reproductive and caregiving tasks, which includes exercising their reproductive rights; ending gender-based violence; and taking all necessary measures to ensure women's equal participation in decision-making. Physical autonomy refers to the capacity to freely decide about sexuality and reproduction, and the right to live a life free from violence.

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Classes and teachers:

Class 1: Conceptual approaches and theoretical approaches on Violence Against Women

Prof: Ana Carcedo (Centro Feminista de Información y Acción, Costa Rica)

Class 2: Intersectional approach to gender-based violence against women

Prof: Vivian Souza (Universidad del Estado de Río de Janeiro (UERJ), Brasil)

Class 3: The evolution of the international regulatory framework on violence against women.

Prof: Dora Barrancos (Universidad de Buenos aires, Argentina y CONICET, Argentina)

Class 4: Advances in national regulatory frameworks and applicability.

Prof: Natalia Gherardi (Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia y Género - ELA, Argentina)

Class 5: National plans on violence against women

Prof: Alejandra Valdés (CEPAL, Chile)

Class 6: New approaches to public policy in the face of less visible forms of violence

Prof: Lorena Fríes (Corporación humanas, Centro de estudios y acción política feminista)

Class 7: Methodologies for measuring the magnitude of violence against women.

Prof: Alessandra Guedes (UNICEF) y Alejandra Valdés (CEPAL, Chile)

Class 8: Reflecting on and discussing extreme violence against women. Trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation, disappearances, and femicide.

Prof: Nicole Bidegain (CEPAL) y Rocío Rosero (Subsecretaria de Prevención y Erradicación de Violencia contra Mujeres, Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes, Secretaría de Derechos Humanos, Ecuador).

9- Educación, género y políticas contra la violencia de género en la escuela, Un ámbito fundamental de la política pública para generar cambios culturales.

Prof: a Graciela Morgade

10-  La perspectiva interseccional: la complejidad de las identidades y de las desigualdades sociales a través de un enfoque integrado.

Prof: Karina Batthyany

11- Impacto económico de la violencia contra las mujeres en el mercado laboral. El gasto público en las políticas de violencia contra las mujeres.

Prof: Christine Brendel (Universidad de Rhein-Main, Alemania)

12- “Violencias de género en las conceptualizaciones e intervenciones  los equipos de salud”

Prof: Yamila Comes

Coordinación: Dora Barrancos (Universidad de Buenos Aires y CONICET, Argentina) y Alejandra Valdés (CEPAL, Chile)

Summary: This workshop is a training space designed to guide the development of the final monograph for the specialization. It will support students in defining their object of analysis, translating it into a viable research problem, constructing a work plan, developing argumentative frameworks, and establishing analytical conclusions. These tasks will be carried out individually and collectively through peer exchange and with the workshop instructor, following a discussion forum format. The workshop's objective is to produce a draft of the final specialization paper. The final monograph may be written in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.

Este seminário tem o objetivo de desenvolver uma abordagem interdisciplinar que articule as diversas áreas das ciências sociais e da economia para refletir sobre a necessidade de se reconceitualizar o termo trabalho incorporando novas dimensões.  A esfera do trabalho reflete valores sociais que atribuem um papel secundário às mulheres e contribuem para a reprodução desses valores, o que pode ser observado através da divisão sexual do trabalho, da segmentação ocupacional, das barreiras ao acesso, à permanência e à promoção no emprego, das menores possibilidades de acesso à qualificação profissional e a remuneração igual à dos homens e a maior incidência de violência contra as mulheres, incluindo o ambiente de trabalho.

This seminar examines the recent conceptualization of “violence against women” and the role of feminist movements in its creation and struggles to eradicate it. Throughout the 20th century, Latin American feminist movements achieved various reforms that increased women's rights, but the conceptualization of violence It is a recent phenomenon. When examining the initial agenda of feminism, it is strange to find a challenge to the Criminal Law that, in all our countries, authorized the murder of a spouse, daughter, or sister for reasons of honor or grief. In some countries, such abhorrent authorizations gradually gave way with the introduction of the concept of “violent emotion,” so often used to exonerate murderers. The wealth of conceptual and political renewal brought about by the so-called Second Wave of feminism, from the mid-1960s onward—with a global reach—so fundamentally altered the rights agenda that patriarchal violence  It took center stage. Although CEDAW – the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979) – represented a significant contribution to overcoming discrimination and the obstruction of women's rights, and these phenomena cannot be understood outside of a framework of violence, regional feminist demands to denounce the diverse manifestations of violence led to the Belém do Pará Convention in 1994. The signatory countries have been implementing legal reforms to comply with its mandate, but serious instances of regressive measures or blatant non-compliance persist. In general, Latin American countries initially introduced legal norms related to so-called "domestic violence" – it should be noted that in the first phase of the feminist resurgence between the 1970s and 1990s, violence perpetrated in the domestic sphere was the focus of attention. Only in recent years have "comprehensive laws" emerged against violence against women, and in many penal codes the maximization of penalties extends to those who kill due to sexual dissidence and ethnic hatred. 

Este seminario busca indagar sobre la concepción del derecho como discurso social y reflexionar acerca de cómo ese discurso configura la subjetividad y las identidades de las mujeres. “La construcción jurídica de la subjetividad no es ajena a las mujeres” (Alicia Ruiz)

A su vez, hace un recorrido por la legislación actual, leyes específicas en materia de violencia de género, leyes integrales y nuevos reconocimientos y campos de acción (legislación obstétrica, acoso laboral).

Coordinación: Alicia Ruiz y Paula Viturro (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

In Latin America, state institutions and civil society organizations face an enormous challenge regarding gender-based violence against girls, adolescents, and women. It is well known that even though there has been significant progress in recent decades, the expressions of gender inequality and discrimination that permeate the lives of children, young people, and adults are deeply rooted in culture, far more difficult to change than laws and government declarations, and require coordinated efforts among different organizations. In this sense, educational policies play a crucial role in deconstructing the logic of identity socialization, building more egalitarian relationships, and preventing violence. Starting from the hypothesis that all education is sexual insofar as it establishes classifications, sexifies everyday experience and constructs a notion around normality, this seminar proposes to question the ways of approaching sexual education and advances in the construction of pedagogical tools in favor of educational practices that aspire to gender justice and that have as their basis the eradication and attention to gender violence.

In this sense, this course aims to contribute to the interpretation and understanding of hegemonic and subordinate discourses on the social construction of sexed bodies in all forms of schooling (academic knowledge constituted in the formal curriculum, expectations and values ​​that shape the actual curriculum, omissions and silences that constitute the null curriculum, the social construction of teaching, and the experiences of those who pass through the school system), as well as to the design and implementation of specific strategies for incorporating this topic into various educational settings. It thus advances the problematization and denaturalization of the practices of gender violence that this effect presupposes.

Furthermore, this study aims to provide an overview of the theoretical frameworks, regulatory frameworks, protocols, and empirical experiences that comprise the field of gender and sexuality studies, particularly those related to gender-based violence in education and specifically linked to sex education. Within this framework, the focus is on reflecting on the challenges of mainstreaming a sex education project that broadens the scope of understanding, contributes to problematizing educational inequalities in their gendered dimension, and enables the development of practices that appeal to pedagogical imagination in pursuit of educational institutions that promote more equitable relationships.

Coordination: Graciela Morgade, Paula Fainsod (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), Jesica Báez (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

This seminar seeks to carry out a conceptual analysis of the construction of gender as an analytical category to explain the social, symbolic, historical and cultural construction of unequal and hierarchical practices and relationships between men and women.

Likewise, conceptualizing and historicizing these categories enables critical analysis and deconstruction of biological determinism, which naturalizes the behaviors of men and women, and allows the incorporation of the recognition of sexual diversity or gender identities as historical, symbolic, and social constructions.

Coordination: Vivian Souza (Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), Brazil)

This seminar seeks to promote an analysis of migration and refuge from a gender perspective, with special attention to the specific dimensions of violence and vulnerability that arise in this context. Considering the significant percentage of women in migrant groups around the world, and in Latin America in particular, and at the same time, the alarming statistics on gender-based violence occurring in these contexts.

Finally, review the specifics of this group in terms of policies, their limitations, and initiatives to address this issue.

Coordination: Elaini Silva (Flacso Brazil)

If any of the mandatory training sessions are owed, in all cases, an additional amount must be paid in order to retake said credit.

If the student decides not to enroll in the Specialization or International Course before its formal start date, they may request a refund of their tuition fees. CLACSO will retain the equivalent of 10% for administrative costs.

Exceptional criteria: In exceptional cases, and within the first two months of the specialization, students may request to withdraw from the cohort and rejoin the following year. In all cases, the reasons for the request must be submitted in writing. No requests will be accepted after two months from the start of the course.

La Especialización y el Curso Internacional están certificados por CLACSO y FLACSO (Brasil).

The Specialization certifies 360 hours/chair of work; the International Course 90 hours/chair.

See the table of prices and options above.

If you wish to obtain certification from FLACSO, you will need to pay an additional fee.*

For those who wish to request only the diploma, the cost is USD 160,00 (one hundred sixty US dollars). For those who wish to request both diplomas and academic transcripts, the cost is USD 200,00 (two hundred US dollars). These costs cover the production, administrative processes, and processing of the aforementioned stamps and seals, as well as shipping costs. Payment can be made by credit card via PayPal invoice, which will be sent by email.

*Values ​​subject to change