“Cê vai se arrepender de levantar a mão pra mim” : uma análise interseccional da violência doméstica contra a mulher em Pelotas/RS

Abstract

The issue of domestic violence against women, beyond to being a current and pertinent topic, represents an important issue to be debated by geographic science. In this research, this issue was analyzed, not only from the spatial perspectives, but also from cultural, socioeconomic and geopolitical approaches. With this in mind, we sought to understand how the territories and places of the women interviewed in Pelotas/RS were reinterpreted as a result of the domestic violence they suffered. In order to contribute to the debate and expand the logics constructed socially and by public policies, an attempt was made to analyze how these concepts are manifested in the speeches of these women. Therefore, it was intended to characterize – race, age and class – the women victims of domestic violence interviewed in Pelotas/RS, as well as to understand the perspective of these women in relation to the house where the violence occurred and to their bodies. In addition to investigating how – and if – women victims of domestic violence reproduce violent ideals in their speeches and also demonstrate how Brazilian public policies to combat domestic violence against women act in the transformation of territories and places of battered women interviewed in Pelotas/ LOL. This research was carried out through an intersectional approach bringing together issues of gender, race and class. For this, case study and dialogic discourse analysis were used in order to understand the territories and places of women victims of domestic violence in Pelotas/RS. Thus, an online questionnaire was carried out, in which eight responses were obtained, serving to capture the reports of these women, analyzing them from the perspectives listed above. To assist in this reflection, the concepts of territory and place were discussed, which help to understand the material and symbolic spatiality of these women. Thus, the decolonial and intersectional epistemologies, based on the theories of black feminists, converge in an analysis of a social whole, seeking to understand the context of social formation that supports this violence. In this way, domestic violence against women is understood as a complex issue, which encompasses several dualities and nuances. In this sense, the answers of the interviewees corroborated the perspectives raised throughout this study, providing reflections and considerations about domestic violence against women, which ended up answering the objectives and concerns previously listed, having, in the discursive question, the evidence of a non-reproduction of the dominant discourse. Finally, it is concluded that women victims of domestic violence are often helpless by the legislation and by society in general, but they also feel more strength either to denounce or to overcome the violence suffered, considering they do not incorporate for themselves the male chauvinist dominant discourse.