Fundamentos para el estudio comparativo de las formas de construcción de la violencia de género como problema público-político en la historia reciente de México y Argentina

Abstract

Gender-based violence is a global problem and has special incidence in Latin America, which is why is recognized as a matter that concerns to public health, as an obstacle to development and as a serious human rights issue. This paper presents the fundamentals for the comparative study of its construction as a public-political problem in Mexican and Argentinian recent history. It also specifies the preliminary results of the comparative research on the socio-historical processes that -in both countries with its peculiarities-produced the emergency of the problem in the public sphere of the hand of feminist activism and the emergence of civil society organizations; and the incorporation into the parliamentary and governmental agendas in the context of its theming by international organizations.