«Dio un golpe a su querida con tan mala suerte que le rompió la cabeza». La violencia hacia las mujeres en la práctica legal y policial en la Restauración, a partir del caso de Galicia

Abstract

Globally, the Penal Code of 1870 did not establish discriminations based on sex, and it supported violence against women in very few cases. However, police and judicial practice protected violent behavior towards women, through biased interpretations of legislation and tolerance on the part of the security forces towards aggressions in the conjugal home. In Galicia violence against women was a small part of the most harmful acts, but it survived in minor modalities due to this cultural tolerance, although it, seems, the allowance decrease