Resumen

MINGO, Araceli. Out of sight… School violence and gender. Perfiles educativos [online]. 2010, vol.32, n.130, pp.25-48. ISSN 0185-2698.

The purpose of this article is to offer a panoramic view of the extent and the diferent shapes of violence at school and its ties with the gender patterns. The first part presents the data obtained by reviewing the statistics produced in Mexico and other parts of the world about the violence that is faced at home and at school by most of the children and teenagers; i. e. behaviors that must be suffered in places where normally they should find a nice environment able to prop up their development and to encourage the acquisition of the qualities that are required for a kind of coexistence based on consideration for the diferences that make every human being unique. On the contrary, the gathered information shows clearly that aspects such as gender, race and sexual orientation do actually detonate open or subtly violent behaviors. In the second part of this work the author gather the results of diverse researches that allow us to see the relevance of some social orders such as gender within the framework of the ill-treat suffered not only by many women, but also by men.

Palabras llave : School violence; Symbolical violence; Gender patterns; Masculinities.