VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AS EXPRESSION OF PATRIARCHY AND MALE CHAUVINISM

Abstract

This article presents a study of the patriarchal culture and male chauvinism in violence against women from a theoretical perspective, the work traverses a historical path of civilization explaining how matricentric culture gave way to the patriarchal cultureand how they were establishing the male and female roles in society. It also brings the construction of the ideology of male chauvinism and the theoretical currents of domination to explain violence against women. Finally, it concludes there is an influence of patriarchy and male chauvinism on gender violence, showing that it is in family environment the most persistent form of violence, reaching female subjectivity.