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Romantic love promotes and lays the foundation for the development of hegemonic affective sex relationships, guiding the normative ways of feeling and experiencing love. This way of conceiving love is an intrinsic part of women's subordination, and it entails a greater tolerance for situations of violence in sex-affective relationships in which the exercise of asymmetric power relations between men and women is legitimized. With the current advent of the postmodern stage, a wide variety of dissident (non-heterosexual) sexual orientations with heterosexual hegemony have been given greater visibility and legitimacy, and new ways of relating to sex affectively have emerged initially opposed to traditional romantic discourse, the fundamental pillar of monogamy. The aim of the present work was to study whether these different ways of linking us and understanding affective sex relations marked a significant difference with respect to the heterosexual monogamous hegemonic model in the assumption of the mythified ideas of romantic love. Therefore, we studied the relationship between sex, sexual orientation, and the type of sex-affective relationship (monogamous or non-monogamous by consensus) in the assumption of the myths of romantic love. For this purpose, an instrument that showed appropriate psychometric properties was created, and a cross-sectional study was carried out with a sample of 1,235 people who completed a self-administered online questionnaire. The results indicated that there were no significant differences according to sex, but there were differences in sexual orientation and type of relationship. It may be concluded that a person, regardless of sex, heterosexual or homosexual, monogamous or who has never had affective sex relations, will have a significantly greater probability of assuming the myths of romantic love than a person with a sexual orientation other than heterosexual or homosexual and who is in a non-monogamous consensual relationship.
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Resumen En este estudio de corte cualitativo, se entrevistaron 94 mujeres que estaban o habían estado en la cárcel. Se analizaron sus relatos de vida, con el fin de responder a la pregunta: ¿por qué las mujeres delinquen y por qué desisten del delito? Del análisis de contenido temático se hallaron tres categorías principales: violencia de género, vínculos afectivos y cuidado. Se encontró que haber sufrido violencia de género puede ser un factor explicativo del delito, los vínculos afectivos y el cuidado del otro pueden ser factores movilizadores hacia el delito y hacia el desistimiento del mismo. Los hallazgos sugieren que las mujeres han estado encarceladas desde antes de entrar a la prisión.
Abstract In this qualitative study, 94 women who were or had been in prison were interviewed. Their life stories were analyzed in order to answer the question: why women commit crime and why they give up crime? From the analysis of the thematic content were found three main categories: gender violence, affective bonds and care. It was found that having suffered gender violence can be an explanatory factor of the crime, the affective bonds and the care of the other can be motivating factors towards the crime and towards the abandonment of the same. The findings suggest that women have been incarcerated since before entering prison.
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Prisons/history , Gender-Based Violence/psychologyABSTRACT
El presente artículo analiza la relación existente entre el repertorio interpretativo del amor romántico y la violencia machista. Se realizaron ocho relatos de vida con jóvenes de entre 25 y 35 años (3 chicos y 5 chicas), centrados en sus relaciones erótico-afectivas. Se recurrió al análisis del discurso, concretamente al de los repertorios interpretativos. Esta aproximación ha permitido identificar, caracterizar y analizar el repertorio interpretativo del amor romántico cuyos resultados orientan las formas adecuadas de sentir, favoreciendo las relaciones heterosexuales, románticas, monógamas y duraderas, que constituyen la base del patriarcado, generando las condiciones de posibilidad para la aparición y mantenimiento de la violencia machista.
The present article analyzes the relationship between the interpretative repertoire of romantic love and gender violence. We conducted eight life stories with young people between 25 and 35 years old (3 boys and 5 girls), focused on their relationships. We have resorted to discourse analysis, specifically the analysis of interpretative repertoires. This approach has allowed us to identify, characterize and analyze the interpretative repertoire of romantic love. The results show how romantic love's interpretative repertoire guides to appropriate ways of feeling, helping heterosexual, romantic, monogamous and long lasting relationships that are the basis for patriarchy, generating the conditions of possibility for the emergence and maintenance of gender violence.
