El ocioso intento de tapar el sol con un dedo: violencia de género en la universidad

Abstract

Based on the use of the notion of gender performativity as a theoreticalmethodological tool, five cases of violence against women in the context of the National Autonomous University of Mexico were analyzed. References to the concepts “right not to know” and “cultivated ignorance” were used to try to expose organizational mechanisms that pose obstacles to reporting these kinds of cases and silence. These two phenomena—hampering and silence—have been imposed as unwritten norms to evade recognition of gender violence as a systemic problem that significantly effects the experience of female university students.