Patriarchal Academia Is Violent for All, Just Not in the Same Way

Storytelling Body Maps of Our Harmed Female Bodies

Authors

  • Lucia Linsalata Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2023.253

Keywords:

Gender Relations, Sexism, University, Violence

Abstract

This article shares a body mapping experience facilitated as part of the postgraduate sociology program at the university Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) with the objective of recognizing and naming the patriarchal violence that harms our educational community. Within this text, we aim to organize and share this body mapping experience, focusing on the potential found in the creation of body-centered research methodologies in order to generate organizational processes within academic arenas to foster that institutions may name, analyze and collectively take responsibility for violence within their walls. This article will simultaneously present some of the violence that was reported and identified during our body mapping sessions through images and group story sharing.

Author Biography

Lucia Linsalata, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

Lucia Linsalata is a graduate in International Relations and Diplomacy (2003), from the Faculty of Political Science of University of Trieste (Italy); MA in Latin American Studies (2009), from the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM); PhD in Latin American Studies (2014) from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM). She is research professor at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities "Alfonso Vélez Pliego" of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. She belongs to the research group: "Entramados comunitarios y formas de lo político" (Community networks and forms of politics) of the Postgraduate in Sociology of the same university.

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Cover: White hand on purple background, text: "Genderspezifische und sexualisierte Belästigung, Diskriminierung, Gewalt im Hochschulkontext (Gender-specific and Sexual Harassment, Discrimination and Violence in Higher Education Contexts)"

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Published

2023-12-11

How to Cite

Linsalata, L. (2023). Patriarchal Academia Is Violent for All, Just Not in the Same Way: Storytelling Body Maps of Our Harmed Female Bodies. Open Gender Journal, 7. https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2023.253

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Vol. 7 (2023): Open Gender Journal

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