Resumen
This article seeks to unveil the ways in which women mining workers signify their bodies, as a symbolic barrier that produces segregation, discrimination and marginalization, interpreted from the notions of symbolic violence, differential value of the sexes, gender inequality, precariousness and social stigma. Using a qualitative methodology, through the analysis of 31 interviews with operators and supervisors, perceptions are interpreted and triangulated around trajectories and experiences of gender relations in large-scale mining. Corporality as a limit and violence is expressed in the sexualization of their bodies; judgment and undervaluation due to less physical force; rejection, stigmatization and trivialization of the reproductive body; as well as in demands for personifying hegemonic male traits to inspire respect, but without «losing femininity», which is classic, causing distress and confrontation.
Título traducido de la contribución | Women's bodies, gender meanings and symbolic limits in large-scale mining in Chile |
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Idioma original | Español |
Páginas (desde-hasta) | 114-129 |
Número de páginas | 16 |
Publicación | Polis (Italy) |
Volumen | 19 |
N.º | 55 |
DOI | |
Estado | Publicada - 2020 |
Publicado de forma externa | Sí |
Nota bibliográfica
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Palabras clave
- Gender barriers
- Mining operations
- Symbolic violence
- Women's bodies