Violência contra mulheres: uma questão de gênero - Montes Claros 1985-1994

Abstract

The purpose of this study and discuss violence against women, particularly the crimes committees against them in Montes Claros, in the period 1985 to 1994. Our discussion has reference to case law analyzing historically the Brazilian Civil and Criminal Codes, and found support in studies of gender, a category thal from the 1990, it became essential for historical analysis, especially from the feminist perspective, a since the question has a cultural given in our society and about what being a woman and man, allowing us to new visions and interpretations about the stigma in the social relations of this subject. Our Corpus is documentary in the analysis of criminal cases related to crimes of murder, injury and rape, committed against women and perpetrated by men, by the mere fort of being considered culturally superior and holders of power and women, therefore, inferior and submissive. We emphasive that the speeches of delegates documentation of police, judges, defense lawyers, witnesses and victims defendants and the judicial system is positioned in front of such crimes. To that end, our analysis also contributes to the oral history with reports of life of victms, offenders and the police men. Realizing the different possibilities of analysis of our documentary corpus, we chose to privilege the analysis of possible changes and remain with regard to violence against women, such as social order and not as a crime but as a tolerable inconvenience , something that must be borne by the woman not to destabilize the social order, family and marriage.