Revista de Políticas Públicas (Jan 2014)

REFLEXÕES SOBRE A VIOLÊNCIA: poder e dominação nas relações sociais de sexo

  • Virginia Paes Coelho,
  • Daniela Beatriz dos Santos Ferreira,
  • Ieda Francisco de Paulo Matias de Alexandria,
  • Maria Angélica Varella Gomes

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 2
pp. 471 – 479

Abstract

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This article analyzes the institutionalization of violence in the context of gender relations. It is centered on the socio-cultural structure and how values, behaviors and attitudes arise that conform bodies according to each sex, leading to consequences such as inequality and intolerance, influencing the multiplicity of violent actions against the other. Masculine domination and the various expressions of gender violence that are perpetuated in society are the main results of the patriarchal ideology with serious inferences in the construction of gender identities. The deconstruction of all forms of violence is proposed, with respect for the other’s right to be a free subject in their sexual orientations and as a forming principle of human action.

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