Sexual Violence in the University Environment in Mexico: Some Reflections on its Manifestations and its Relationship with Feminist Activism

Daniela Cerva Cerna () and Marcela Suárez Estrada ()
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Daniela Cerva Cerna: Universidad Autónoma de Morelos
Marcela Suárez Estrada: Freie Universität Berlin, Lateinamerikainstitut

Chapter Kapitel 17 in Sexualisierte Belästigung, Diskriminierung und Gewalt im Hochschulkontext, 2023, pp 221-233 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Gender violence in academia exposes female students to sexual harassment and bullying as the most common expressions of gender discrimination and misogyny. In 2019/2020 in Mexico, students have started to initiate a series of actions to demonstrate against sexual violence in academia and to publicly denounce their aggressors through both public exposure of perpetrators (escraches) and clotheslines (tendederos). As documented by several scholars (Barreto Barreto, Rev Mex Sociol 79:261–286, 2017; Cerva Cerva, Rev. de la Educ. Super 49:135–145, 2020a, Cerva D (2020b) La protesta feminista en México. La misoginia en el discurso institucional y en las redes sociodigitales. Rev Mex Cienc Polit Soc 65(240):177–205; González González G (2019) Acciones colectivas para enfrentar la violencia de género en las universidades: el caso de los escraches en la Red No Están Solas. Tesis de Maestría en Estudios Políticos. UNAM Posgrado en Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, México and Mingo Mingo A (2020) Juntas nos quitamos el miedo. Estudiantes feministas contra la violencia sexista. Rev Iberoam Educ Superior 11(31):3–23. 10.22201/iisue.20072872e.2020.31.703), these forms of public denunciation have served to render visible practices of sexual violence and strongly emphasized the need for specific institutional responses. Due to these actions, university authorities decided to implement the revision of the protocol of protection. However, these reactions are not enough. The objective of this article is to document the development of the conflict around sexual violence and harassment at Mexican universities, the institutional reactions as well as the mobilization process of feminist activism to fight violence. We argue that there is a dire need of establishing processes to legitimate a gender perspective as a tool for analyzing the experiences of inequality and discrimination of women in academia.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-40467-3_17

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