The City Council organizes a conference on ‘Advances in violence against women’, by the sociologist Carmen Ruiz Repullo.

The speaker, a lecturer at the University of Granada, is one of the great experts in the field of coeducation and specializes in gender violence in adolescents and young people.

The meeting will take place next Tuesday, May 28, at 6:00 p.m., at the Padre Manuel Cultural Center.

Estepona City Council reports that next Tuesday, May 28, at 18:00 pm, will be offered at the Centro Cultural Padre Manuel a conference on ‘Advances in violence against women: an analysis from adolescence and youth’, which will be given by sociologist Carmen Ruiz Repullo. The talk is aimed at professionals in the judiciary, education, health, law enforcement, but also to families and interested citizens.

The presentation of this talk, which will end with a debate, will be given by the councilor attached to the delegations of Women and Youth, Julia Simon. As a speaker, will intervene the sociologist Carmen Ruiz Repullo, one of the country’s leading experts on coeducation, specializing in gender violence in adolescents and young people. She has a degree in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Granada, where she teaches and holds a PhD in Sociology at the Pablo Olavide University.

The aim of this talk is to prevent and detect patterns of gender violence and to know how they have evolved over the years, with a focus on adolescence and youth. Understanding the psycho-emotional and social framework that sustains structural violence is essential to tackle it, first of all, from the point of view of coeducation. But it is equally important to address it in all possible areas, judicial, police, health, among its professionals in the direct care of victims.

Carmen Ruiz Repullo emphasizes the danger of normalizing certain attitudes that make violence invisible. The ‘Myths of Romantic Love’, with its dominant models of relationships in our society and gender violence derived from the patriarchal concept of love, is one of the priority issues to work on, and the sociologist addresses especially how social networks have become the transmitting vehicle not only of machismo, but of violence.

This talk is an activity financed by the State Pact Funds against Gender Violence of the Ministry of Equality, Secretary of State for Equality and against Gender Violence.

Admission is free until full capacity is reached.

Carmen Ruiz Repullo has focused her work on analyzing the process of gender violence within the framework of the couple in adolescent population, being a reference in this area at the state level thanks to the research conducted for the Andalusian Institute of Women in 2016. In that same year she began to investigate sexual violence in adolescence, opening a new line of analysis on gender violence in these specific ages.

She has been awarded the Meridiana Prize in 2017. In addition, she is the author of the book ‘La historia de Pepa y Pepe’, where she represents gender violence in a staircase in which the two protagonists, teenagers who have just started a relationship, go up steps. At each step, Pepe controls Pepa a little more, and the examples she uses are based on real events that she has been extracting from her talks and workshops.