Percepciones y estrategias de agenciamiento de un grupo de mujeres víctimas de violencia basada en género, vinculadas a la Fundación Kunsejana de Cali

Abstract

This research addressed the perceptions of violence and agency strategies of a group of women victims of gender-based violence exercised by their sentimental partners, from to the upper middle class, aged between 40 and 50 years of age, were linked in the Kunsejana Foundation of Cali.

The method discussed in this study was qualitative with the adoption of the descriptive type of research. We used the following techniques for the collection of information: in-depth interviews, along with other tools such as the field diary and the observation, typical of the exercise of research in the social area. For the analysis and interpretation of the data, the gender perspective and phenomenology were taken into account, where the positions of authors such as Lambert, (2006); Heidegger,(1958); Beauvoir, (1949) and Lamas, (1996) were essential and fundamental for the understanding of the subject under study. As results, the research found that the group of women at the time of living their experiences had deep-rooted thoughts framed in patriarchal ideologies about the ideal of life as a couple, a model of the nuclear family, which alludes to the obligatory heterosexuality defined by Ritch (1980), infused by different socializing agents from childhood. This group of women after experiencing acts of violence by their sentimental ex-partners, used strategies to break the circle of violence, by seeking support in their networks described as their personal, family, and public and private institutional institutions such as Kunsejana, which will facilitate them to acquire the necessary tools to end their situation as victims of gender-based violence.