Abstract

SANTILLAN ESQUEDA, Martha. Violence, Masculine Subjectivity and Justice in Mexico City (1931-1941). Secuencia [online]. 2019, n.104, e1614.  Epub May 07, 2019. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i104.1614.

Based on a study of individual, social, legal and medical experiences and conceptions in two domestic murders, an analysis is conducted of the construction of male subjectivities through violence. It is grounded in the assumption that violence against women was part of contemporary sociabilities, and that although social, political and legal changes took place that limited bloody attacks and encouraged the development of women in the public sphere, patriarchal frameworks and male authority remained intact. The murders studied are not isolated cases, but understood in relation to broader social processes through which individuals shaped their subjectivities and gave meaning to their actions. Very few historiographical articles study the construction of male subjectivity in connection with violence, in particular in the period proposed.

Keywords : gender; violence; male subjectivity; criminal justice.

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