El cuidado como forma de subjetivación paradojal femenina popular: aportes desde los márgenes respecto del fenómeno de la violencia contra la mujer

Abstract

Caregiving as a Form of Popular Female Paradoxical Subjectivation: Contributions From the Margins Regarding the Phenomenon of Violence Against Women The following article gathers the results of a research whose main objective was to analyze the discursive practices constructed by women inhabitants of popular sectors in Chile on the phenomenon of “violence against women”. The discussion highlights the main ways of enunciating this phenomenon throughout history and, at the same time, how it emerges as a framework of possibility for the women themselves who have been victims or witnesses of it. From an exercise that seeks to tension the discursive forms that appeal to a certain idea of subject, thus making invisible those subjectivities against the current, as is the case of women living in conditions of poverty. The main finding is the emergence of care as a form of paradoxical subjectivation, as a framework of subjection and resistance to violence that also stresses the victimizing vision from which this phenomenon is approached in Chile.