Jogos de poder e metamorfoses: representações sociais de violências de gênero, na esfera conjugal, em Uberlândia-MG, de 1997 a 2017

Abstract

This study identifies and analyzes games in power relations and social representations of 29 subjects who experience violence, in the sphere of marriage, and 28 professionals to support such people, with their meanings and for the (des) construction of these abuses. Methodologically, it is a bibliographical and participant research, of a qualitative nature, developed in the municipality of Uberlândia-MG., of the period from 1997 to 2017. For this reason, the use of a multistructured interview and analysis of documents from the organizations of the Support network investigated: Women's Station, of the Government of the state of Minas Gerais; From the Board of Directors or the Core of Support to the Woman/Sector Special Attention/Secretariat of Social Development of the city of Uberlândia, where it allocates the program House Shelter Crossing and, still, the Supervision of the Woman, also linked to the municipal public power and of the SOS Woman and Family of Uberlândia.The interpretations of the data are backed up on Cultural history; in studies on representations; genre and feminisms; power and violence. As for who experience marital relations with the presence of violence, auxiliary issues have been analyzed: relationship between gender, relation of power representations, adherence to certain values and marital; the choices made by the people met in the institutions of the support network, given the historical possibilities presented; the experiences and feelings identified in the stories of violence; the evidence of the elements that make up the situations: hostage of the power of the other and/or outputs of the process of assault and reinvention of the history of life; the idealization of the relationship and the other and whether it contributes to situations of violence. From the representations on gender and power relations, entremearam statements on bodies, intimacies, relationship jealousy and "loving", in the marital context; the impacts of violence on the health concerned and the children; the weight of religiosity in the perpetuation, or not, of abuses and choices. On the professionals of the network confront the violence the understanding about the senses and meanings of the gender representations of professionals in/for the attendance; opportunities professionals to deal with violence without promoting them; the importance of yours interventions and the institutions, conferred by people who were met there; about appropriate services and from which point of view, as well as whether some provide institutional violence. Thus, institutions where most subjects, from this study, pass through and contact public policies that a priori have difficulty in putting an end to violence or, on occasion, promote violence, seem, on the other hand, provide visibility, certain politicization on practices. and oportunizam who experiences the problem, in its specificities, to seek aid to settle and deal with ambivalent feelings, complex experiences, hard acquired, remaining hostage and/or (re) constituting subjectivities, launching hand of possible strategies to rewrite his life story. There were approximations in the gender and power relations representations of professionals, as well as of different couples (less or more favoured classes, victims and authors, hetero, homosexual) who live violence, with permanence, in this delimited period, in relation to the two decades Earlier and, in the findings of the spirals of violence, varied strategies to deal with abuses in coexistence, where silence does not mean consent or consensus. Understanding narratives provides highlight version of reality, dissent, nuances, conformisms, resistors, tactics (con) games (on) experience, and performances reveal conservations and "metamorphoses" in relations of gender and power permeated by violent contexts.