This essay analyzes the agency of women confronting gender violence in the Unalahua community located in Salcedo-Ecuador. Violence
is perpetrated mainly by women’s partners in domestic spaces. Based on a set of interviews and field observations, this text analyzes
the tools that women have used to respond to this violence. Phenomena such as gender violence, high rates of poverty in rural
areas, silence as a strategy to mitigate violence, “strike back”, and clandestine networks of support and containment, contribute to the
thinking of other forms of agency in the face of violence in rural areas. Given this scenario, women proved to be “active agents” in
the construction of a different reality based on their own experiences.
Tello Carrillo, J. (2022). The agency of rural women against violence: The case of the Unalahua-Salcedo community. Nomadías, (31), pp. 139–161. Retrieved from https://revistateoriadelarte.uchile.cl/index.php/NO/article/view/69435
