El Género en el Análisis de la Violencia contra las Mujeres en la Pareja: de la “Ceguera” de Género a la Investigación Específica del Mismo

Violence against women is now regarded as a gender-based violence and recognized as a violation of human rights and a serious social problem of epidemic proportions, both by different international organisms and by governments in a growing number of countries. According to this consideration, studies for the analysis and characterization of this violence should place gender as a central category of analysis (i.e., they should be gender-specific or, at least, gender-sensitive). However, despite this, not a few scientific texts and papers continue to be written from what has been termed gender blindness. This article reflects on the possible repercussions of this “blindness”, and on the need to start from a framework of interpretation that places gender at the centre of analysis and adequately dimensions this problem. For this, the most common form of violence against women is taken as an example, that is, the one that occurs in intimate partner relationships.