Global Journal of Human Social Science, C: Sociology and Culture, Volume 22 Issue 6

© 2022. Camila Lucía Torrico Cano & Dolly Alcoba. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creativecommons org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Romantic Love and Violence against Women from a Gender Approach By Camila Lucía Torrico Cano & Dolly Alcoba Universidad La Salle Bolivia Abstract- Romantic love is dangerous for many women. Violence against them (VAW) and femicides increase and are mostly perpetrated by their (ex) partners. The Objective of the present study was to describe the personal interpretations of Romantic Love and VAW of men and women who go to the University in La Paz; the study has a qualitative approach of the explanatory descriptive type, based on focus groups and a scale. Despite sharing some indicators, men and women interpret them differently, but these respond to the traditional image of romantic love, where VAW is normalized, so a possible way to counteract it is by deconstructing romantic love, and the gender stereotypes that they promote. Keywords: romantic love, holistic love, young people attending university, gender roles and stereotypes and violence against women (VAW). GJHSS-C Classification: DDC Code: 813.4 LCC Code: PS1017 RomanticLoveandViolenceagainstWomenfromaGenderApproach Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: C Sociology & Culture Volume 22 Issue 6 Version 1.0 Year 2022 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-460x & Print ISSN: 0975-587X Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: