This work was generated around a common concern for gender-based violence, its meanings, scope and legal strategies to address it, together with the need for a relational approach, attentive to the contexts in which violence takes place.

In its first part, some issues related to principles and concepts are introduced, the clarification of which enables a better understanding of violence and contextual analysis to highlight the need to take into account the circumstances surrounding the victims of gender violence.

The work also provides a study of masculinities, that is, a look from men, from the masculine position and meaning. Second, through the study of femicide, the criminal policy options that several Latin American countries have opted for, on the one hand, and Spain, on the other, are analyzed. The focus is also on violence against women in relation to their most intimate affective circle, mainly daughters and sons. In the third part of the book, dedicated to sexual violence, rape and the various legal approaches that have accompanied it are analyzed, and its repercussions on armed conflicts are studied. Finally, the fourth part delves into the study of international human rights law on gender and violence, emerging rights and constitutional worldviews.

Throughout the articles that we present here, a common thread can be traced that emphasizes questioning the standard legal perspective, inherited from patriarchal models, anchored in the masculine vision of the law. The works gathered in this book propose a longer and more complex look, capable of unveiling social and cultural meanings that go through the bodies and lives of women in situations of violence. This gaze does not only interrogate women and men who are protagonists of conflicts of violence; it goes further, to encompass relationships in context.