No Peace, No Truce for Women in El Salvador: A Study on the Meaning of Domestic Violence from Women’s Perspectives in One of San Salvador’s Many Invisible Communities
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https://doi.org/10.51378/eca.v70i741.3313Keywords:
Violence against women, Domestic violence, Reasons, Proximity to violence, Perceptions, Gang truceAbstract
In a country where violence has become part of everyday life for its citizens, certain forms of violence are silenced by the overwhelming weight of this social context. In particular, violence against women appears to have been rendered invisible by the significance and sheer number of violent deaths among men and by gang violence. Thus, this issue has historically received little attention in the dominant social and political discourses at the national level. Given this gap, the focus of this research is to understand how women perceive and react to their experiences of domestic violence in a community with high rates of violence (of all kinds) in El Salvador. By engaging with women who have experienced violence and using in-depth interviews, the study sought to explain how these experiences are understood in a small, marginalized community in the San Salvador metropolitan area, and how women who experience violence explain, justify, and respond to these realities. At the same time, the study explored how the community and political context influences the way these realities are viewed in El Salvador.
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