Lenguaje verbal y no verbal utilizado en el acoso sexual experimentado por las mujeres estudiantes entre los 18 y 25 años de la Fundación Universitaria Católica Lumen Gentium sede Meléndez de la ciudad de Cali

Abstract

The present investigation was focused on the recognition of the verbal and non-verbal language used in sexual harassment, this being a type of gender violence that affects women on a daily basis. Through this work, we sought to recognize the experiences of sexual harassment from the women's reports and identify from the communication the verbal and non-verbal language used against sexual harassment. The women interviewed lived different experiences of sexual harassment, from harassment by a stranger to by very close friends and relatives, in terms of verbal harassment they used compliments with sexual connotations such as: ''Mamasita'', ''How rich you are '', ''You are very hot'', among others. On the other hand, non-verbal harassment was evident in gestures with sexual connotations, approaches to the female body without consent, exhibition of genitals in public, and blowing kisses in the street. Sexual harassment is not a contemporary issue, it is a topic that began to be discussed in the first feminist groups, this type of behavior or attitudes on the part of men develops from upbringing in the family nucleus and likewise influences the cultural environment in which they grow up, since they are educated in spaces that are macho and patriarchal