Abstract

RAMIREZ-RODRIGUEZ, María Himelda  and  ARIZA-SOSA, Gladys Rocío. The politic in the intimate partner violence as a public health problem. rev.fac.med. [online]. 2015, vol.63, n.3, pp.517-525. ISSN 0120-0011.  https://doi.org/10.15446/revfacmed.v63n3.45191.

This opinion paper articulates different nuances of intimate partner violence as a public health problem with emphasis in its political dimensions in Colombia, as a result of several researches of the authors that involve a narrative review, the systematic professional observation, the dialogues and consultations with specialists from different fields, the participation in various research projects and social activism scenarios. The initial question is: what happens to the health of love in Colombia? This means thinking about the reasons to begin intimate relationships, how to face conflicts and how to decide to inflict or tolerate abuse that could unleash on violence. This is in relation to the subjective and cultural dimensions, which include questioning of the hegemonic masculinities, influenced by a history of more than sixty years of violence in Colombia and the gender inequities intertwined with economic ones. The intimate partner violence in Colombia has become a political and social problem that deserves governmental and social attention in a complex environment of confrontations between patriarchal traditions that underestimate its relevance and the transformations prompted by the feminist movement in alliance with other social sectors, that intend to position it as an ethical inadmissible problem, which means to go further in the construction of violence against women as an intolerable issue.

Keywords : Social problems; Violence; Feminism; Gender relations.

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