The political dimension of thought loving

Abstract

In this paper we are interested in investigating the effects of social structures about bodily experiences of women in relation to the loving thought as a cultural system. In this sense, we investigate control mechanisms and control/regulation that romantic love, as an ideology, produces and reproduces, favoring inequality conditions that are the basis of patriarchal violence. We are approaching the implications that such mechanisms generate in bodily experiences of women, and strategies of subjective and collective resistance that they built. The hegemonic model of conceiving love in our societies, integrates an ideology that works as a configured source of social and individual practices as part of the construction process of gender relations. This cultural ideology is erected and constructed as a fundamental aspect of women's life, playing a central role in the maintenance and perpetuation of social subordination of women. This has historically been used to justify oppression and patriarchal violence against women. Reflect on love means recognizing its political dimension, which is expressed not only in social institutions, laws, policies (children, family, attention to disability, among others); but also in building subjects social and subjectively. Rethinking the hegemonic construction of "hetero-capitalist" love allows us to unmask their roles in the hierarchization of social order and the reproduction of inequality between men and women".