Towards a feminist social intervention in the context of gender-based violences

Abstract

This work proposes the concept «Feminist Social Intervention» (FSI) to identify an incipient practice of social intervention focused on feminist action proposals. Through the study of the social intervention ways with women survivors of gender-based violence in different contexts– the specialized services provided by the Administration, the third sector, and the community and self-managed initiative–differential practices, experiences and stories based on structural components of the feminist historical reflection have been detected which would justify the proposed concept. The methodology used is qualitative, and it is based on in-depth interviews conducted with intervening professionals and volunteers. This concept would allowed:(a) to make visible a form of critical and feminist intervention that is already being developed, although in a limited and precarious way; (b) to identify more clearly what these differential practices and principles are; and (c) to vindicate the urgent need for a unique form of social intervention aligned by transdisciplinary feminist proposals that place women at the centre of the accompaniment, survival and empowerment processes after and/or during gender-based violence situations.