"Reescrever minha história, virar a página, seguir em frente": trajetórias de mulheres pós-situações de violência
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2016-07-08
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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The violence against women is a frequent problem in several life stories which marks
subjectivities and memories. However, such personal experiences hardly ever are shared and
heard. This research displaces to the public space of science a problem reputed to be in the
private sphere of intimate relationships. Of qualitative approach, it consists of a set of five
interviews with women currently living in Goiânia, who experienced the ambience of violence
triggered by their partners - boyfriends or husbands. I seize the subjective meanings
attributed to their experiences and I identify processes of subjectivation, with emphasis on
the attempts of ressignification and resilience by the subject of the investigation, which, for its
parts, points out possible ruptures with suffered violences. The study shows that, sometimes,
there is a refusal to see violence as social-based process, but personal one associated with
explosives and jealous behaviors. Also, the violence is displayed, in the cases investigated, as
embodied, culturally contextualized and with historical specificities. Women who experienced
violence remain covered by impotence, trauma, fear, psychological disorders, and lack of support of friends and family. Herewith, the study shows that even women, with high
educational level and not financially dependent on their partners, have difficult to expose,
denounce and seek professional help (except one who prosecuted her aggressor). The
reported violence situations were not always the same, as they take different formats, in
certain contexts and circumstances. However, there are common aspects shared across those
women (and little less so in others), as the negative effects of violence still resonate in their
lives and in whole society. Their sexist and misogynist violence survivor stories are a positive
indicator whether we consider femicide the most severe end of the cycle of violence against
women. Therefore, the interviews allowed to conclude that the women, who have suffered
violence at the hands of their own partners, achieved to make new sense with their lives by
pointing out the desire to rebuild something already –or soon to be – conquered in the
narratives of them all. Their attempts to ressignification point to a shift in the balance of
power, such as feminist studies underscore the theme of violence. The notion of subjectivity
as an agency and not just slavery, leading to the possibility – at least in some contexts – of
the strength and freedom of action.
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Violência contra as mulheres , Gênero , Sujeito , Agência , Feminismo , Violence against women , Gender , Subject , Agency , Feminism
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BORGES, Érika Nunes de Medeiros Ferreira. "Reescrever minha história, virar a página, seguir em frente": trajetórias de mulheres pós-situações de violência. 2016. 123 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Sociologia) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2016.