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Patriarchal Violence

Code: 107002 ECTS Credits: 6
2025/2026
Degree Type Year
Sociocultural Gender Studies OB 3

Contact

Name:
Patricia Fernanda Gonzalez Prado
Email:
patricia.gonzalez@uab.cat

Teachers

Leonor Maria Cantera Espinosa

Teaching groups languages

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Prerequisites

In this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is allowed as an integral part of the development of the work, provided that the final result reflects a significant contribution of the student in the analysis and personal reflection. The student must clearly identify which parts have been generated with this technology, specify the tools used and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final result of the activity. The lack of transparency in the use of AI will be considered a lack of academic honesty and may lead to a penalty in the grade of the activity, or greater sanctions in serious cases.


Objectives and Contextualisation

  1. Understand the conceptual and legal scope, as well as the specific characteristics, of patriarchal violence, sexist violence, gender-based violence, violence against women, and violence against LGTBI+
  2. Identify the various domains and forms of sexist violence, and the importance of applying a gender, intersectional, and human rights-based perspective.
  3. Reflect on the structures that sustain systemic inequalities and patriarchal violence.
  4. Become familiar with regional, national, and international legal frameworks regarding the prevention and comprehensive redress of sexist, gender-based, and patriarchal violence.
  5. Understand the available tools for prevention and comprehensive redress.
  6. Analyze the implications of working with cases of patriarchal violence and the importance of self-care.
  7. Promote knowledge of feminist criminological theories and legal feminisms.
  8. Highlight the responses of the criminal justice system to patriarchal violence.
  9. Understand the administrative support structures for addressing sexist violence, the protection mechanisms for women, children, and adolescents who experience violence, and the main challenges and barriers to accessing justice.

Learning Outcomes

  1. CM03 (Competence) Put teamwork skills into practice: a commitment to the team, regular collaboration, encouraging problem solving.
  2. CM29 (Competence) Develop basic indicators to carry out an intersectional assessment of patriarchal violence in different spheres (free from biases of sexuality, social class, ethnicity, and other axes of social inequality).
  3. KM51 (Knowledge) Apply specific debates on gender and law, bioethics, law and technology, and the sociology of law to legal practice.
  4. KM52 (Knowledge) Apply basic legal principles to the prevention of crimes of patriarchal violence.
  5. KM53 (Knowledge) Build models of psychosocial and community intervention against patriarchal violence.
  6. SM44 (Skill) Analyse examples of patriarchal violence in different spheres (legal, work, education, family, health, leisure, etc.).
  7. SM45 (Skill) Use inclusive language in the legal sphere.

Content

  1. Theoretical and Legal Frameworks for Understanding Patriarchal Violence, Gender-Based Violence, and Violence Against Women
  2. Forms of Gender-Based Violence
  3. Public Policies for the Prevention and Comprehensive Redress of Patriarchal Violence
  4. International, National, and Regional Legislation and the Due Diligence of Public Authorities
  5. Institutional Violence and Secondary Victimization: Paradigms, Legislation, and Case Law. Special Focus on the False Parental Alienation Syndrome
  6. Sexual Violence: Interventions Addressing Sexual Harassment and Harassment Based on Sex
  7. Data on Gender-Based Violence: Victimization Surveys, Judicial Statistics, and Qualitative Data
  8. Cyberviolence: Regulatory Frameworks, Rights, and Best Practices
  9. Myths Surrounding Gender-Based Violence
  10. Self-Care for Professionals Working with Gender-Based Violence and Professional Best Practices
  11. Consequences of Gender-Based Violence on Women and on Children, Adolescents, and Youth
  12. Social Responses to Gender-Based Violence
  13. Security from a Gender Perspective

Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Practical class 30 1.2 CM03, CM29, KM51, KM52, KM53, SM44, SM45, CM03
theoretical class 30 1.2 KM51, KM52, KM53, SM44, SM45, KM51
Type: Supervised      
preparation of work 24 0.96 CM03, CM29, KM51, KM52, KM53, SM44, SM45, CM03
tutorship 10 0.4 KM51, KM52, SM44, KM51
Type: Autonomous      
documentation search 8 0.32 KM51, KM52, SM44, KM51
Reading and analysis of bibliographic material 30 1.2 CM29, KM51, KM52, KM53, SM44, SM45, CM29
Study 18 0.72 KM52, KM53, SM44, KM52

The course is delivered through both large group sessions and small group (teamwork-based) sessions. The teaching methods and activities are organized as follows:

Whole-group sessions:

  • Lectures delivered by the instructors to develop the theoretical components of the course.

  • Individual and group presentations by students.

Classroom practice sessions:

  • Development of various participatory activities.

Therefore, the methodology for course delivery includes:

  • Lectures

  • Participatory methodologies such as flipped classroom

  • Tutorials

Note: 15 minutes of one class session, within the schedule set by the faculty/degree program, will be allocated for students to complete surveys evaluating teaching performance and the course/module.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Active participation in the classroom 10 0 0 CM03, CM29, KM51, KM52, KM53, SM44, SM45
grup work 30 0 0 CM03, CM29, KM51, KM52, KM53, SM44, SM45
individual writing test 40 0 0 CM03, CM29, KM51, KM52, KM53, SM44, SM45
presentations, debates and oral defenses 20 0 0 CM03, CM29, KM51, KM52, SM44, SM45

To pass the course, students must obtain a grade of 5 or higher (on a 10-point scale) in each of the required assessment components.

The course will follow a continuous assessment model. Instructors will evaluate student participation, as well as both group and individual assignments.

Assessment requirements: Active participation in class and the submission of all individual and group assignments are mandatory in order to be assessed.

Reassessment eligibility: Students who receive a grade lower than 5 but equal to or higher than 3.5 in any of the assessment components may be eligible for reassessment. These components may be recovered through tasks similar in format to those used during the continuous assessment process. The maximum final grade achievable after reassessment is 5.

Academic integrity: If a student engages in any form of misconduct that significantly alters the outcome of an assessment, that assessment will be graded with a 0, regardless of any additional disciplinary measures that may apply. In cases of multiple instances of misconduct within the same course, the final grade for the course will be 0.

Plagiarism or copying: If any form of plagiarism or copying is detected in submitted work, the final grade for the course will be 0, and the student will lose the right to reassessment.

Students will be eligible for assessment provided they have completed a set of activities whose weight amounts to at least two-thirds (2/3) of the total grade for the course. If the value of the completed activities does not reach this threshold, the teaching staff may consider the student as "not assessable." In the case of continuous assessment, the same criterion for being considered "not assessable" shall apply.


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Basic legislation

Ley Orgánica 1/2004, de 28 de diciembre, de Medidas de Protección Integral contra la Violencia de Género. Boletín oficial del Estado, 313 § 21760 (2004)

Llei 5/2008, del 24 d'abril, del dret de les dones a eradicar la violència masclista. Diari Oficial de la Generalitat de Catalunya, 5123 (2008)

DIRECTIVA (UE) 2024/1385 DEL PARLAMENTO EUROPEO Y DEL CONSEJO de 14 de mayo de 2024 sobre la lucha contra la violencia contra las mujeres y la violencia doméstica

Ley Orgánica 10/2022, de 6 de septiembre, de garantía integral de la libertad sexual

Ley Orgánica 2/2010, de 3 de marzo, de salud sexual y reproductiva y de la interrupción voluntaria del embarazo

Ley Orgánica 1/2023, de 28 de febrero, por la que se modifica la Ley Orgánica 2/2010, de 3 de marzo, de salud sexual y reproductiva y de la interrupción voluntaria del embarazo

 

 


Software

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Groups and Languages

Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(PAUL) Classroom practices 1 Catalan/Spanish second semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 1 Catalan/Spanish second semester morning-mixed