%0 Journal Article %T £¿Violencia invisible o del ¨¦xtasis al dolor? %A Fern¨¢ndez Rius %A Lourdes %J Revista Estudos Feministas %D 2008 %I Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina %R 10.1590/S0104-026X2008000100015 %X the values and roles for each gender are not socially recognized in an impartial way. it is a cultural construction that seeks, relying on the differences and, on a dichotomous hierarchy and power, to establish an inequality that reinforces the supremacy of masculinity as a value. in patriarchal culture - as a trend - men tend to be the most violent, and women to have a behavior of dependence and docility. therefore the coupling relationships associated with fantasies of love are a space of power and are constantly harassed by experiences of servitude and domination. difference - hierarchy - inequality - discrimination - violence, invisible feedback circuit that culture reedits daily and which expresses itself from psychological form to extreme damages primarily toward women on the amorous relationship. %K love relationship %K gender %K power %K violence. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-026X2008000100015&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en