Studies on gender-based violence against women

The specialization quadro, or International Course, is constituted as a multidisciplinary space of theoretical and practical training, to analyze the complexity of gender violence, its relationship with gender inequalities and other intersections of inequality present in all dimensions of society. Consequently, it constitutes a field of learning about: the conceptual frameworks present in the analysis of gender violence against women, its manifestations, the international framework of global, regional and national human rights; The legislative coerência that must be achieved for an efficient and effective response of the State, as well as will account for the different approaches in public policies of prevention, awareness, reparation and punishment.

Furthermore, it will allow the analysis of two levels of institutionalization of policies and strategies to confront the problems of the States of the region, as well as methodologies of measurement and analysis of public costs and expenditures. The analyzes are situated in a plot that brings together the various intersections of inequalities that are expressed in female diversities, in view of the intersectoral strategies that are being developed or should be developed in the implementation of public policies and their effects in the region.

As part of the conceptual development that this course proposes, women's autonomy will be a central theme and will serve as the development of public policies that enriches the applicability potential of this curricular proposal. Autonomy means, for women, the ability and concrete conditions to freely make decisions that affect their lives. Achieving greater autonomy requires many different quests , including freeing women from exclusive responsibility for reproductive and care tasks, including exercising two reproductive rights; end gender violence and adopt all necessary measures so that women participate in decisions on equal terms. When it comes to physical autonomy, it refers to the ability to decide freely about sexuality, reproduction and the right to live a life without violence.

The course constituted a field of learning on: the conceituais frameworks present in the analysis of gender violence against women, its manifestations, the international framework of global, regional and national human rights; on the legislative coerência that must be achieved for an efficient and effective response of the State, as it will account for the different approaches in public policies of prevention, awareness, reparation and punishment.

Furthermore, it will allow us to analyze the levels of institutionalization of policies and strategies to confront the problem in the States of the region, as well as methodologies for measuring and analyzing public costs and expenditures. The analyzes will be situated in a plot that brings together the various intersections of inequalities that are expressed in the diversity of women, in view of the intersectoral strategies that we see being developed or should be developed in the implementation of public policies and their effects in the region.

Classrooms and teachers:

Classroom 1: Abordagens Conceituais e Abordagem Teótica sobre Violência Contra as Mulheres

Prof: Ana Carcedo (Feminist Center for Information and Ação, Costa Rica)

Classroom 2: Intersectional approach to gender violence against women

Prof: Vivian Souza (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil)

Classroom 3: The evolution of the international normative framework of violence against women.

Prof: Dora Barrancos (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and CONICET, Argentina)

Class 4: Advances in national regulatory structures and applicability.

Prof: Natalia Gherardi (Latin American Justice and Gender Team - ELA, Argentina)

Classroom 5: National plans of violence against women

Professor: Alejandra Valdés (ECLAC, Chile)

Classroom 6: New approaches to public policies in the face of less visible violence

Prof: Lorena Fríes (Human Corporation, Center for Feminist Political Action and Studies)

Classroom 7: Methodologies to measure the magnitude of violence against women.

Prof: Alessandra Guedes (Unicef) and Alejandra Valdés (ECLAC, Chile)

Classroom 8: Reflect and debate extreme violence against women. Trafficking of women and girls for the purposes of sexual exploration, disappearances and feminicide.

Prof: Nicole Bidegain (ECLAC) and Rocío Rosero (Undersecretary of Prevention and Eradication of Violence against Women, Men and Adolescents, Secretary of Human Rights, Ecuador).

Classroom 9: Education, gender and policies against gender violence in schools, a fundamental area of ​​public policies to generate cultural changes.

Professor: Graciela Morgade

Classroom 10: An intersectoral perspective: the complexity of identities and social inequalities through an integrated approach.

Professor: Karina Batthyany 

Classroom 11: Economic impact of violence against women in the labor market. Public expenditures with policies of violence against women.

Prof: Christine Brendel (University of Rhein-Main, Germany)

Classroom 12: “Gender violence in the concepts and interventions of health teams”

Professor: Yamila Comes

Coordinator: Dora Barrancos (University of Buenos Aires and CONICET, Argentina) and Alejandra Valdés (ECLAC, Chile)

Summary: The office is a training space intended to guide the preparation of final specialized monographic work. It will accompany the students in the elaboration of the object of analysis, in its translation into the problem of life study, in the construction of a working plan, in the development of argumentative plots and in the establishment of analytical conclusions. These tasks will be carried out individually and collectively through peer exchange and as a professor responsible for the office in the form of a discussion forum. The objective of the office will be to produce a final work outline of the specialization. The final monographic work can be in Spanish, Portuguese or English.

This seminar aims to develop an interdisciplinary approach that articulates the various areas of social sciences and economics to reflect on the need to reconceive the thermowork incorporating new dimensions. 

The sphere of work reflects social values ​​that attribute a secondary role to women and contribute to the reproduction of these values, or that can be observed through the sexual division of work, occupational segmentation, barriers to access, permanence and promotion without employment, There are fewer possibilities of access to professional qualifications and remuneration equal to two men and a higher incidence of violence against women, including the work environment.

Coordinator: Marilane Teixeira Oliveira (Flacso Brazil)

This seminar examines a recent concept related to "violence against women and the role of feminist movements in their creation and struggles to eradicate it. Throughout the 20th century, Latin American feminist movements have obtained several reforms that will enable the expansion of their rights. women, but a conceituação referring to violence and recente.

When examining the inaugural agenda of feminism, it is strange to find a challenge to the Penal Law that authorizes, in all our countries, the murder of a spouse, filha ou irmã for reasons of honor or dor. In some countries, these absurd authorizations coincide with the institution of “violent emotions,” often used to establish murder criminals. The enormous conceptual and political renewal carried out by the Second Feminist Wave, since the mid-1960s - with global projection - modified the agenda in such a way that patriarchal violence took center stage.

Embora a CEDAW - Convention against all forms of discrimination against women (1979) - has given a notable contribution to the overcoming of discrimination and obstruction of the rights of women, and that these phenomena cannot be addressed outside of a violent semiology, as feminists regionals affirm that complaints of various manifestations of violence that occurred at the Convention of Belém do Pará in 1994.

The signatory countries are carrying out legal reforms to adapt to their mandate, but the manifestations of delay or failure still persist in a serious manner. Generally speaking, Latin American countries first present legal norms referring to the so-called “family violence” - it is necessary to say that in the first phase of the feminist revival between the decades 1970-1990, violence practiced in the domestic sphere was the focus of attention. Only in recent years have emerged laws that open the fight to violence against women and in many criminal codes to maximize penalties for those who kill for sexual dissidence and ethnic hatred.

Coordinator: Dora Barrancos (Universidade de Buenos Aires and CONICET, Argentina)

This seminar seeks to investigate the conception of life as a social discourse and reflect on how this discourse shapes the subjectivity and identities of women. “The legal construction of subjectivity is not the joy of women” (Alicia Ruiz).

In turn, take a tour of the legislation in force, specific laws on gender violence, new laws and reconhecimentos e fields de ação (obstetric legislation, non-local labor assistance).

Coordinator: Alicia Ruiz and Paula Viturro (Universidade de Buenos Aires, Argentina).

In Latin America, state institutions and civil society organizations face an enormous challenge in terms of gender violence against girls, adolescents and women. It is known that, since there have been enormous advances in recent decades, as expressed in inequalities and gender discrimination that affect the lives of girls and boys, young people and adults, the cultural roots are very difficult to modify as read and declared by governments, and require articulated work between different organizations.

In this sense, educational policies play a fundamental role in the deconstruction of the logic of socialization of identities, in the construction of more egalitarian relationships and in the prevention of violence. Starting from the hypothesis that all education is sexual to the extent that it establishes classifications, daily experiences of sexes and constructs a notion around normality, this seminar aims to interrogate the ways of approaching education in sexuality and the advances in the construction of pedagogical instruments in the prol educational practices that aspire to gender justice and that serve as a basis for the eradication and attention to gender violence.

In this sense, this curricular unit seeks to generate contributions to the interpretation and understanding of two hegemonic and subaltern discourses on the social construction of sexed bodies in all school forms (academic knowledge constituted in a formal curriculum, expectations and endorsements that configure the real curriculum, omissions and silences that compõem the null curriculum, the social construction of teaching and the experiences of what happens in school), as well as for the conception and implementation of specific strategies for incorporation of discipline into the various educational devices. Avança-se, então, in problematization and denaturação of the practices of gender violence that this effect pressupõe.

Furthermore, it aims to provide a panoramic view of the theoretical productions, normative references, protocols and empirical experiences that comprise the field of gender and sexuality studies, those related to gender violence in education and specifically related to sexual education. Nesse quadro, o focus is to reflect on the challenges of transversalization of the sexual education project that broadens the horizon that contributes to problematize educational inequalities in its sexual dimension and makes it possible to motorize practices that appeal to the pedagogical imagination in the search for educational institutions to promote fairer relationships.

Coordinator: Graciela Morgade, Paula Fainsod (Universidade de Buenos Aires, Argentina), Jésica Báez (Universidade de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

This seminar seeks to carry out a conceptual analysis of gender construction as an analytical category to explain the social, symbolic, historical and cultural construction of unequal and hierarchical practices and relationships between men and women. In the same way, conceiving and historicizing these categories makes possible a critical analysis and deconstruction of biological determinism, which naturalizes the behaviors of men and women and allows the incorporation or reconhecimento of sexual diversity or generic identities as historical, symbolic and social constructions.

Coordinator: Vivian Souza (Universidade del Estado de Rio de Janeiro (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 relevant percentage that women represent migratory groups around the world and in Latin America in particular and, at the same time, the worrying statistics on episodes of gender violence occurring in these contexts. Finally, review the particularities of this group in terms of policies, limitations and initiatives to address this question.

Coordinator: Elaini Silva (Flacso Brazil)

To participate, you must register on the website.

Registration will be open between December 12 and April 5.

Upon completion of the registration process, you will receive confirmation by e-mail.

If any of the mandatory training sessions are not completed, in all cases, an additional amount must be paid to recover the aforementioned credit.

If a student decides not to take the Specialization or International Course before its formal start, he or she may request a refund of the registration fee. CLACSO will calculate the amount equivalent to 10% of the administrative allowances.

Exceptional Criteria: In exceptional cases, in the first two months of the start of the specialization, someone may request to leave school and resume it the following year. In all cases, the reasons justifying the request must be presented in writing. Two months after the start of the course, it will no longer be possible to request this procedure.

If a student decides not to take the International or Specialization Course before its formal start, he or she may request a refund of the registration fee. CLACSO will calculate the amount equivalent to 10% of the administrative allowances. After all, no refund will be made.

The classrooms will start in April 2022 and will be completed in March 2023.

All registered participants will receive the necessary instructions to access the classrooms, bibliography and discussion forums through the CLACSO Virtual Training Space.

The navigation access to the Virtual Training Space happens in a simple and clear way. In any case, a technical and academic support team will always be at your disposal.

You must certify the International Course, two (2) eletive Virtuais Seminars, a support office to carry out the final work and carry out the final work.

To obtain the title of the Specialization, you must conclude a final monographic work. The support office for the completion of final work is required and will assist you in the process.

You must participate in the classrooms and activities proposed by the teachers and do the final monographic work.

However, the International Course Specialization requires certificates for Flacso Brazil and CLACSO.

The specialization has a total workload of 360 hours and an international course of 90 hours.

The submission of the declaration of conclusion will be done digitally and is completely free.

The international Specialist diploma is issued by the Secretary-General of the Flacso, located in Costa Rica. The values ​​and procedures for issuing and sending the international diploma can be consulted on the Flacso Brazil page: https://flacso.org.br/?page_id=24376

The Specialization in the International Course requires credentials from Flacso Brazil and CLACSO.

The international Specialist diploma is issued by the Secretary-General of the Flacso, located in Costa Rica. The values ​​and procedures for issuing and sending the international diploma can be consulted on the Flacso Brazil page: https://flacso.org.br/?page_id=24376.

See the table of prices and modalities, available above.

If the international certification is not issued by the General Secretary of the Flacso, an additional fee must be paid.*

*The issuance of the printed diploma, together with the grade history, costs USD 200,00 (two dollars). The value includes the sending of two printed and assigned documents for the student's residential address. The procedures for issuing and sending the international diploma can be consulted on the Flacso Brasil page: https://flacso.org.br/?page_id=24376.