Políticas públicas preventivas à violência doméstica implementadas em Uberlândia - MG

Abstract

The aim of this study was evaluate preventive public policies of the domestic violence against women understood as the educational and cultural actions that act in the desconstruction of myths, symbolic construtions, gender stereotypes that modify sexist patterns, and propagate egalitarian values of women and man, implemented in the city of Uberlândia. For this, the work approached the construction of inequalities between women and men in personal interactions in the domestic sphere, based in gender theories, especially in studies of Joan Scott, Heleieth Saffioti e Pierre Bourdieu, as well as the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, highlighting the role of the family in the construction of the identities of individuals, as an important factor that generates gender inequalities and results in violence against women.The survey of these public policies, carried out through interviews with the authorities responsible for the development and implementation of the policies for women in the county, was presented in order to illustrate the panorama of the network of protection to the women in the locality, with a description of the actions practiced. In this context, the various political actions narrated by the authorities was analyzed under the preventive bias, with the questioning whether they actually act at the roots of violence, acting to deconstruct the sexist patterns. This analysis was followed by the presentation of the numbers of domestic violence against women in Uberlândia, made available by the city's public agencies.