La vittimizzazione secondaria da una prospettiva militante: le paure delle donne sulle quali è agita ogni forma di violenza

At last, careful reflection is underway on secondary victimization understood as a double institutional violence that affects women when they decide to move away from domestic violence situations. In summary, all the traumatic situations that women experience after recounting the facts of violence and reporting it, attributable to the institutional procedures put in place, are named secondary victimization. The reasons are related to the lack of recognition of violence, sexist stereotypes and prejudices thought against women who want to emancipate themselves from abusers, and all those attitudes that underestimate women’s fears and do not frame violence by confusing it with conflict. In this essay, from a militant perspective, we highlight the dynamics that shape the phenomenon and point out the fallout that structural and systemic violence inflicts on women in terms of anxieties and fears.