Theoretical foundations and methodological elements for a feminist analysis of violence against women

Abstract

Against the forms and processes through which heteropatriarchy creates knowledge and constructs discourses around gender violence or machista violence (heteropatriarchal epistemologies), the feminist resistance has worked tirelessly in the construction of new frameworks and interpretations. As a contribution to this process, this article aims to share a methodological proposal consistent with a feminist analysis of violence against women. As a result of the theoretical review and epistemological reflection that emerges from a research of the phenomenon in the activist communities of the Basque Country, the proposal is sustained on the analysis of ten narratives of women activists who have survived violence.