Violence against women in the northeast of Mexico: elements for its contextualization

Abstract

The levels of violence and insecurity in Mexico grew significantly from 2006; while female deaths with presumption of homicide rose alarmingly. Here we will realize some contextual elements on gender-based violence against women of our diagnosis of the north-eastern part of the country (Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas). We will offer some indicators of the position that women occupy in relations of power and production within the framework of the male hegemony. We will address the phenomenon of social violence in the context of growing criminality, public insecurity and the military presence in some of these entities by the declaration of war against drug trafficking. All of the above will allow closer to define the context as that "specific set of cultural, economic and political situations and conditions in which it is socially possible and rationally understandable presentation and the development of a phenomenon".