Poverty and emotions: narratives on social policies and violence against women in Greater Buenos Aires

Abstract

The multiple gazes of the qualitative approach locate in the narrations a meeting place and intersection between diferent disciplinary areas. With the focus on sociology, the narrative is the way in which the subjects narrate, relate, tell a fact, an event, a sensation, and a feeling. The stories of women benefciaries of the Ellas Hacen Program aimed at situations of vulnerability and gender violence, and allowed us to know and understand something of the universe of the program, its environment. Along with this, the possibility of analyzing the experiences and emotions of these women. The article makes a brief tour of the narrative in social research to later analyze, based on the use of the interview, what was narrated by women benefciaries of Ellas Hacen (the program name is ‘They do’, but in Spanish, Ellas Hacen is the plural of she) and to end by recognizing the conditions of production and reproduction of more forms of violence.