Violence Against Women and their Political Uses

Abstract

This article is intended as a brief critical reflection on the political uses of male violence against  women,  and  therefore,  how  a fundamental  issue  undoubtedly,  emphasized  by  the movement of women and treated by many feminist literature inclination can be used within a framework that lends itself to legitimate security policies, rather than to facilitate the finding of an appropriate response to the problem. I help with examples drawn from what happens in Italy, although it is known that this manipulation is common in many other cultural and political contexts, and is consistent with a form of government today hegemonic neoliberalism. My thesis argues that this use has been facilitated by the collapse, both linguistically and culturally, the whole issue has to do with the asymmetrical relationship between the sexes in the field of “violence.” This collapse, can be interpreted, from my point of view, as one of the products of the progress of the hegemony of the neoliberal political rationality over the last thirty years.