Female professors and gender violence in a border university

Abstract

Historically, gender violence has permeated all spaces of professional female inclusion as a reflection of the prevailing patriarchal social structure. The university, as space for reflection, is not oblivious to this situation. Therefore, it was considered a top priority to analyze the gender violence against women from theoretical methodological perspective considering its complexity in the political, cultural, social, and institutional endeavors, as well as the driving gears that constitute its specificity. To break the moral cover and silence around the patriarchal violence in all its variations, to voice it out from the social spaces of the university mean an important step to make it visible, to analyze it, to dissect it, and to prevent it. From the context of northern Argentina, in Salta province, this article shares the experiences of academic women in regards with types, modalities, approaches, and challenges related with gender violence within the spaces of a public university in the Northern frontier. There’s not a slightest doubt that from our human condition it demands non-deferrable actions, here and now, to protect the women who face gender violence situations, however, our actions cannot be limited or be pleased only about it. It is necessary to contribute in the collective effort to dreaming, to thinking, and to build equalitarian social spaces that could splinter the cornerstone of gender violence.