Del silencio a la narración de mujeres en pueblos originarios. Historias de violación

Abstract

The stories of women about the traumatic experience of sexual violence in their childhood, are part
of the biographical gender of old women, adult women and young people in native towns of the
northern center of the state of Veracruz, Mexico. Rape as a tragic intersectional heritage that masks
private vices with public virtues of a duty to be feminine according to the cultural tradition. As a
sense orientation, it is proposed in this paper that, the stories of life in intercultural spaces are daily
events that strengthen a history of normalization of a violent sexuality towards girls that legitimizes
repressive practices and social silence. Gender is the analytical tool in social history that allows us
to examine the narratives of life stories enshrined in impunity and violence, under a diffuse tolerance
of traditional and governmental regulations.