Patterns of Violence Against Girls in Ecuador.pdf (original) (raw)

2017, Patrones de Violencia hacia las Niñas en Ecuador

This book (originally in Spanish) is based on a qualitative and quantitative research study that maps and analyzes perceptions of gender-based violence, particularly against indigenous girls in the Ecuadorian Central Andes, in five provinces: Azuay, Cañar, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi and Pichincha. The research illustrates how cultural patterns become internalized at early stages of growth, and how these patterns are translated into dominant masculinities and submissive femininities. The designed methodology involved working closely with the Indigenous communities' children, their families and teachers as well as school officials in order to map the multiple voices representing the problem. In addition, the analysis identified the challenges faced by the institutions that work towards reducing and eliminating violence against children, specifically looking at gender-based violence. The book makes visible how violence against boys, girls and women is further enabled in contexts of economic and social disparity and goes hand-in-hand with stratification based on class, gender, ethnicity, and race. Violence is hence reproduced and perceived as culturally appropriate and as such, expected.

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