SILVA, D. N. B.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4053610440770571; SILVA, Damares Niedja Bento da.
Resumo:
The theme of violence against women has gained in the political and academic
scene great visibility by establishing a set of articulated public policies that aim to
promote, guarantee and protect women victims of domestic violence. The scientific
production has been directed to the study of domestic violence practices aimed at the
woman as a victim and the man as an aggressor. Given this scenario, the discussion
of gender arises demonstrating the limit of thinking the masculine and feminine
identity from the aspect of naturalization and biology. It is necessary to investigate if
the public policy guidelines and decision making regarding domestic violence
responds to the dynamics. Of violence experienced in the fabric of everyday life.
Therefore, the objective of the research was to understand if public policies aimed at
promoting, guaranteeing and protecting the issue of domestic violence respond to the
context of changing gender identities from a new context. The theoretical dialogue
was based on Scott (1998) with the concept of gender; Silva (2012) with the concept
of power and domestic violence with Saffioti (1995), based on the (de) construction of
gender identity as victim woman and managgressor, Foucault (1982). For this
purpose, a documentary survey was conducted in Gil (2008) based on the surveys of
the Specialized Women's Police Station in Campina GrandePB, from January 2013
to June 2016, as well as a bibliographical review of Lakatos and Marconi (2010). Of
the scientific works produced with the theme of the study of domestic violence in
Campina Grande. The results of the research indicated that there are no cultural,
economic and social differences between the analyzed profiles of the subjects
involved in domestic violence; The violence experienced in the domestic space is the
result of the action and reaction of both men and women. The view that naturalized
women as victims and men as aggressors is limited, because in the fabric of daily life
the actions of both men and women represent a bilateral relationship of power that at
certain moments constitute a relationship of violence. Women assume positions that
contradict the will of the other and from this action motivates the exercise of violence.
In order to have policies that address the context of domestic violence, one must take
into account the relativization of the paradigm of women as victims and of the man as
aggressors, as well as establish policies that address a socioeconomically and
culturally vulnerable population.