@article{ref1,
title="Irreconcilable differences political culture and gender violence during the Chilean transition to democracy",
journal="Latin American perspectives",
year="2015",
author="Hiner, Hillary and Azócar, María José",
volume="42",
number="3",
pages="52-72",
abstract="The politics of national reconciliation during the transitional period of the 1990s in Chile constructed a hegemonic framework that affected discourses in other domains in multilayered ways. In order to achieve consensus among its various factions, the Concertación used &quot;reconciliation&quot; discourse to portray the nation as a family, and potentially divisive issues were framed in the most apolitical, ahistorical, and technical way. In this context, gender violence was construed as a matter of family and individual liberties, and the objective of the first family violence law was maintaining the family intact. The framework of reconciliation and its association with Christian forgiveness and family unity promoted the use of conciliation rather than sentencing as the primary means of settling domestic violence disputes and made it difficult for those affected by gender violence to achieve justice. However, the foundational discourses of the 1990s served an important purpose in opening up discursive spaces on gender violence that could be further refined. <p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0094-582X",
doi="10.1177/0094582X15570884",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582X15570884"
}