Misoginia judicial

This work aims to be an urgent denunciation of the new institutional violence against women, especially in the field of justice, and of those that continue to be exercised despite decades of feminist struggle to eradicate them. Let's think about the initial difficulties of women's access to the judiciary; in the prejudices and misogynistic stereotypes that still permeate our societies and, therefore, also those who judge crimes against women, revictimizing them or dictating exemplary sentences against them. Some of this institutional violence is the result of the misogynist reaction to the successive advances of feminism, to its greater presence and social and legislative recognition. Beatriz Gimeno analyzes the misogynistic reaction embodied in different judicial processes and sentences, in what she considers a legal war against feminism. Some of these resistances are very old, such as the refusal to judge rape as a crime against women's sexual freedom. Others are new and appalling, such as the refusal to acknowledge and correct the prevalence of sexual assault on minors by male relatives, reflected in Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) and other subterfuges stemming from it. Gimeno shows that the laws that act against sexist violence have a limited impact if the State does not ensure compliance and if there is no constant evaluation of its application.