Contributions for Eradicating Gender Violence

Abstract

In this article, we analyze the case of a women’s group that works within a democratic adult education movement that uses some principles of the Communicative Methodology as their methodological foundation. In this group, housewives, domestic workers, women without university degrees, and immigrant women meet with researchers and academic women to engage in egalitarian dialogue and reflect together about the causes of gender violence and the strategies to overcome it. The communicative basis of the group’s organization reflects how the dialogic turn of societies has moved through diverse spaces and contexts of human interaction and knowledge creation, such as feminism. In this group, knowledge of both daily life and international research are integrated through women’s dialogue. Critical thoughts and knowledge emerge and have a transformative impact on preventing and overcoming gender violence.