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Este trabajo indaga en la repercusión que tiene en las mujeres la práctica continuada de las técnicas de autodefensa feminista en la percepción de su propia fuerza física, así como en sus capacidades de reacción ante una agresión. Tomando el género como categoría de análisis y atendiendo al significado que se le otorga en la defensa personal feminista como relación social de poder asimétrica observamos que la disciplina opera en base al binomio hombre agresor, quién posee el monopolio de la fuerza física y ejerce la violencia, frente a la mujer agredida, situando a esta como una víctima pasiva que, debido a la idea de una naturaleza femenina relacionada con la vulnerabilidad y la indefensión aprendida, asume su incapacidad de defenderse. Gracias a la investigación llevada a cabo mediante la observación participante durante el desarrollo de clases semanales de autodefensa y las entrevistas en profundidad a una docente titulada en autoprotección para la mujer, y a sus alumnas, se advierte cómo el entrenamiento reiterado de este tipo de técnicas transforma la subjetividad de las mujeres. Les aporta capacidad de agencia y, aunque si reflexionan sobre su acercamiento a la fuerza física como medio para defenderse, como un atributo que las mujeres también poseen, e incluso algunas experimentan una reconciliación con esta fuerza, el cambio crucial se basa en esta consciencia de verse capaces de reaccionar ante una agresión con eficacia. Independientemente de definirse o no a sí mismas como seres fuertes, lo que en varias informantes causa más reticencias que afirmar que tienen fuerza, el hecho de desbloquear los mecanismos de autoinhibición les concede la posición de sujeto activo que incrementan su seguridad, lo cual según subrayan, es lo que más notan en su día a día.
This paper investigates the impact that the continued practice of feminist self-defence techniques has on women's perception of their own physical strength, as well as on their ability to react to aggression. Taking gender as a category of analysis and attending to the meaning given to it in feminist self-defence as a social relationship of asymmetrical power, we observe that the discipline operates on the basis of the male aggressor binomial, who has the monopoly of physical strength and exercises violence, as opposed to the assaulted woman, situating her as a passive victim who, due to the hegemonic femininity related to vulnerability and learned defencelessness, assumes her inability to defend herself. Thanks to the research carried out through participant observation during the development of weekly self-defence classes and in-depth interviews with a teacher qualified in self-protection for women and her students, we can see how the repeated training of this type of techniques transforms women's subjectivity. It gives them agency and, although they reflect on their approach to physical strength as a means of defending themselves, as an attribute that women also possess, and some even experience a reconciliation with this strength, the crucial change is based on this awareness of being able to react effectively to aggression. Regardless of whether or not they define themselves as strong beings, which causes more reluctance in several informants than stating that they have strength, the fact of unlocking the self-inhibition mechanisms grants them the position of active subject that increases their security, which, as they emphasize, is what they notice most in their daily lives.
This paper investigates the impact that the continued practice of feminist self-defence techniques has on women's perception of their own physical strength, as well as on their ability to react to aggression. Taking gender as a category of analysis and attending to the meaning given to it in feminist self-defence as a social relationship of asymmetrical power, we observe that the discipline operates on the basis of the male aggressor binomial, who has the monopoly of physical strength and exercises violence, as opposed to the assaulted woman, situating her as a passive victim who, due to the hegemonic femininity related to vulnerability and learned defencelessness, assumes her inability to defend herself. Thanks to the research carried out through participant observation during the development of weekly self-defence classes and in-depth interviews with a teacher qualified in self-protection for women and her students, we can see how the repeated training of this type of techniques transforms women's subjectivity. It gives them agency and, although they reflect on their approach to physical strength as a means of defending themselves, as an attribute that women also possess, and some even experience a reconciliation with this strength, the crucial change is based on this awareness of being able to react effectively to aggression. Regardless of whether or not they define themselves as strong beings, which causes more reluctance in several informants than stating that they have strength, the fact of unlocking the self-inhibition mechanisms grants them the position of active subject that increases their security, which, as they emphasize, is what they notice most in their daily lives.
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autodefensa feminista, técnicas de defensa personal, género, cuerpo y fuerza física, Feminist self-defense, personal defense techniques, gender, body and physical strength
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Martín Jiménez, Alba. Trabajo Fin de Máster: La relación de las mujeres practicantes de autodefensa feminista con la fuerza física. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) 2024
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Facultad de Filosofía
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Antropología Social y Cultural