Actions against gender violence: Representations and discourse of leaders of the feminist movement in Michoacán

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze critically some of the discourses and social practices about the violence against the women in Michoacán, México, besides unveil the discourse that as a group the leaders of the feminist movement around the institutionalization of the feminism in the state. The methodological strategy used for the article consisted to analyze from the perspective of discourse analysis and cultural semiotics a corpus of in-deep interviews to eight active leaders of the feminist movement against violence toward women. In analysis of the discourse with the leaders of the feminist movement in Michoacán conducted an exercise in deconstruction, so that by segmenting their stories in metaphors components are extracted, and the words are considered as units that insinuate, that is, the speaker does not intend to say what appears literally, but what imagine. The analysis of metaphors allows understanding the senses and contradictions of the discourse of leaders of the feminist movement and reveals their experience violence intervention.