Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem ()

Interface between conjugal violence and alcohol consumption by the partner

  • Milca Ramaiane da Silva Carvalho,
  • Jeane Freitas de Oliveira,
  • Nadirlene Pereira Gomes,
  • Mariana Matias Santos,
  • Fernanda Matheus Estrela,
  • Helenise Maria da Silva Duarte

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0540
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 71, no. suppl 5
pp. 2109 – 2115

Abstract

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ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the discourse of women on the interface between marital violence and alcohol use by the partner. Method: qualitative exploratory research, based on the methodological reference of oral history. We interviewed 19 women with a history of marital violence and involvement with drugs. The data were analyzed through discourse of the collective subject. Results: the participants’ discourse points to consumption of alcohol by partners as a potentiating element of violent episodes, also experienced by their parents, signaling to its transgenerational character; it also calls attention to the danger of marital violence resulting from men’s reactions to having their alcohol consumption questioned by their partners. Final considerations: the study identifies alcohol as a precipitating and/or potentiating factor of conjugal violence, as well as the intergenerational character of violence based on male domination and intolerance.

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