Strategies to face violence against women : Latin American feminists´ reflections

This essay presents violence against women as a social problem of high magnitude as well as based on gender inequality. The author summarizes both the main discussion issues and the last decades´ Latin American feminist fight. She highlights the conception of violence against women as a public problem, a negation of citizenship rights and as a law matter. Despite the withdrawals and the contradictory character of the relations between the feminist movement and the social institutions, there is no doubt that the configuration of a new social practice related to violence perpetrated against women is taking place.