Gender, violence and the construction of the identity of bolivian women

The article intends to approach the social, theoretical, social and psychological perspectives for understanding the processes of social construction of gender identities in Bolivia. Evidence indicates that indigenous women suffer triple discrimination: gender, class and ethnic dimensions of a matrix of colonial domination. Despite the resistance movements of Bolivian women dating from 1962, female emancipation did not occur. The maintenance of the symbolic and social representation that men are always right, are hierarchically superior to women confers space to an environment of violence, even after the promulgation of Law 1674 against domestic violence and domestic violence and Law 2.033 to protect victims of sexual abuse. During the government of Evo Morales, the presence of women in public and political life presented a growing wave with some specific demands such as the defense and promotion of human rights, the pursuit of women's participation in different levels of decision and the liberation of indigenous women and rural areas of all kinds of oppression. The Cholas, women who took shape in the Bolivian historical process and in the past represented subservient and naive people, and who currently occupy a progressive position reaffirming the indigenous identity and its ideological position when using the pollera.