scholarly journals GÊNERO E VIOLÊNCIA: UM ESTUDO SOBRE A LEI MARIA DA PENHA (2006-2011) EM MATO GROSSO GENDER AND VIOLENCE: A STUDY ON THE MARIA PENHA LAW (2006-2011) IN MATO GROSSO

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Marques ◽  
Stela Cunha Velter
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Biological Sex ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Law ◽  
Women Violence

<p><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Resumo</span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">: O presente artigo aborda a Lei Maria da Penha sob o prisma do debate da violência contra a mulher. A violência é tratada sob aspectos culturais e historicamente estabelecidos nas relações de poder entre homens e mulheres. A Lei 11.340, de 7 de agosto de 2006, revela-se parcialmente alheia aos debates mais recentes dos estudos feministas ao considerar o sexo biológico definidor do gênero. Fez-se importante apresentar o surgimento e andamento das Delegacias Especializadas de Atendimento à Mulher que sofre violência. Em especial, focalizamos Mato Grosso. Apresentamos os antecedentes da lei a partir dos juizados especiais e decisões judiciais a partir da lei.   </span></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Palavras-chave</span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">: Lei Maria da Penha; gênero; violência; Mato Grosso.  </span></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Abstract</span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">: This paper addresses the Maria da Penha Law in the light of the discussion of violence against women. Violence is treated under cultural aspects and historically established power relations between men and women. Law 11.340 of August 7, 2006, it is revealed partially foreign to most recent discussions of feminist studies to consider the defining biological sex of the genre. There was important to present the rise and progress of the Special Police Departments for Assistance to Women suffering violence. In particular, we focus on Mato Grosso. Here is the background of the law from the special courts and judicial decisions from the law.  </span></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Keywords</span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">: Maria da Penha Law; gender; violence; Mato Grosso.   </span></p>

Violência, gênero, saúde e fronteira(s): Diálogos interdisciplinares

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Staliano ◽  
Marcos Mondardo
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Socioeconomic Vulnerability ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Academic Texts

The volume “Violence against women: interdisciplinary dialogues” brings together academic texts, by scholars who are interested in the theme, and professionals to publicize the work they develop at Casa da Mulher Brasileira, located in the capital of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. violence against women is a social phenomenon that covers all cultures and social classes, considered a matter of human rights and public health. In Brazil, the struggle for women's rights began with the struggles of feminist movements, which resulted in the creation of the first Specialized Police Station for Assistance to Women. Years later Law No. 11,340 (Maria da Penha Law) was created, assuring all Brazilian women to enjoy their fundamental rights to the human person and attributing to the public authorities the guarantee of these rights. Violence in the border region needs to be seen as a complex phenomenon crossed by legislation, historical, geographical, political and cultural aspects. Dealing specifically with violence against women, Latin American women who live in a Brazilian border region, in addition to structural machismo, experience the socioeconomic vulnerability marked by drug trafficking, facilitated acquisition of firearms and the late legislative recognition of the crime of femicide, which contribute to the perpetuation of the practice of intentional lethal crimes against these women.

scholarly journals Gender and Political Violence

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public

Feminist studies have rejected the assumption according to which gender violence is an individual or private issue that has to be primarily approached from a psychological perspective. They have underscored the link between gender violence and other factors of social inequalities. Feminists contend that men use violence as a means to exercise power over women. They have defended the idea according to which violence against women is a form of political violence. Marxist/materialist feminisms have argued that the dichotomy between the private and the public spheres structures power relations between women and men. They have shown that the private/public distinction depoliticizes the private sphere. Simultaneously, they have demonstrated that the private sphere—as much as the public domain—is a political construction which serves to reinforce women’s subordination and their social, political and economic exploitation. Women’s relegation to domestic tasks and their responsibility for care work reinforce the norm of political participation and economic resources as a male privilege. The concept of political violence locates politics in the public domain, and links violence with armed conflicts, social movements, and wars. By contrast, feminist studies situate the production of political violence within domains of life which were previously dismissed as irrelevant for politics: the home, the neighborhood, the intimate space, interpersonal relations and everyday life. Feminist theories make visible the political nature of violence against women. They consider that violence against women takes various forms, occurs in all social spaces, and is closely intertwined with gender hierarchies. Violence against women is an instrument for maintaining women’s oppression and men’s privileges in societies. The political economy of patriarchy and gendered inequalities makes women more vulnerable and fuels violence against women. Furthermore, women of color and queer feminists have highlighted the importance of other categories of identity such as race, class, and sexuality in the way gender violence is deployed. A focus on gender, instead of women, enables to bring nuances to monolithic representations of masculinity and femininity by demonstrating how the masculine and the feminine constitute socially constructed sets of attributes, behaviors, and roles that are constantly negotiated and changing over time and history. An intersectional approach to gender is therefore necessary to understand how violence differently targets and affects women of color and queer people.

Legal and Institutional Functionality in the Protection of Women – Victims of Domestic Violence in the Republic of Macedonia – Present Situation and Future Perspectives

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Zorica Saltirovska Professor ◽  
Sunchica Dimitrijoska Professor
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Women Victims ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
National Level ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Republic Of Macedonia ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Gender Based

Gender-based violence is a form of discrimination that prevents women from enjoying the rights and liberties on an equal level with men. Inevitably, domestic violence shows the same trend of victimizing women to such a degree that the term “domestic violence” is increasingly becoming synonymous with “violence against women”. The Istanbul Convention defines domestic violence as "gender-based violence against women", or in other words "violence that is directed against a woman because she is a woman or that affects women disproportionately." The situation is similar in the Republic of Macedonia, where women are predominantly victims of domestic violence. However, the Macedonian legal framework does not define domestic violence as gender-based violence, and thus it does not define it as a specific form of discrimination against women. The national legislation stipulates that victims are to be protected in both a criminal and a civil procedure, and the Law on Prevention and Protection from Domestic Violence determines the actions of the institutions and civil organizations in the prevention of domestic violence and the protection of victims. The system for protection of victims of domestic violence closely supports the Law on Social Protection and the Law on Free Legal Aid, both of which include provisions on additional assistance for women victims of domestic violence. However, the existing legislation has multiple deficiencies and does not allow for a greater efficacy in implementing the prescribed measures for the protection of victims of domestic violence. For this reason, as well as due to the inconsistent implementation of legal solutions of this particular issue, the civil sector is constantly expressing their concern about the increasingly wider spread of domestic violence against women and about the protection capabilities at their disposal. The lack of recognition of all forms of gender-based violence, the trivial number of criminal sentences against persons who perform acts of domestic violence, the insufficient support offered to victims – including victim shelters, legal assistance, and counseling, and the lack of systematic databases on domestic violence cases on a national level, are a mere few of the many issues clearly pointing to the inevitable conclusion that the protection of women-victims of domestic violence is inadequate. Hence, the functionality and efficiency of both the existing legislation and the institutions in charge of protection and support of women – victims of domestic violence is being questioned, which is also the subject for analysis in this paper.

Some issues and challenges to women’s development and empowerment in India

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rekha Pande
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Child Gender ◽  
Poor Growth ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Cultural Aspects

The present paper looks at the history of development and empowerment and discusses the impediments to development and empowerment in India. It focuses on the three major issues in India today, namely, the attitude towards, Girl child, Gender violence and Globalization, which have to be dealt with as a priority in bringing out the development and empowerment of women in the present era. If we look back into the history about the discussions and debates related to the issue of development and empowerment, we can see some broad trends. The whole debate on development states that there were number of women who organized and mobilizing around the globe for their rights. The development planners and policy makers did not have any interaction with these groups and they considered feminism as irrelevant to development and it was viewed as a luxury for the better of women in the industrialized countries. Hence, the first stage, main stream development models gave rise to jargons like, “basic human needs”, “meeting the needs of the poorest of poor”, “growth with equity”. This phase viewed development as an administrative problem whose solution lay in transferring vast amount of resources and technological innovations from rich to poor countries. As compensation to this followed, integrating women into the development process. Education and employment as a means of income generation became indicators of women’s involvement in the development process, but again under this phase a large chunk of rural women were left behind. Today women have addressed the question of development from a feminist perspective. They have raised important questions on issues of child care, reproductive rights, violence against women, family planning, transfer of technology and rural development and given the concept of development a new meaning. If development leads only to an increase in production, then it tends to reinforce and exaggerate the imbalances and inequalities within and in between societies. Development has to be an integral process with economic, social and cultural aspects leading to the control of one’s life situation.

Association of Black Women’s Perceptions of the Sex Ratio to Their Attitudes Toward and Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122110139
Author(s):  
Karen B. Vanterpool ◽  
William L. Yarber ◽  
Molly Rosenberg ◽  
Rasul A. Mowatt ◽  
Justin R. Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Behavioral Models ◽  
The Past ◽  
Women’S Perceptions ◽  
Women Violence

This study explores how perceptions of the availability of male dating partners (sex ratio) affect heterosexual Black women’s tolerance and experiences with intimate partner violence (IPV). Evolutionary behavioral models suggest that when the sex ratio is high (more available men than women), violence against women is more likely to occur, whereas the Guttentag–Secord model suggests that when there is a surplus of men, violence against women is less likely to occur. Testing these theories, results show perception of a high sex ratio was significantly positively associated with experiences of IPV in the past 12 months and more tolerant attitudes toward IPV.

scholarly journals The Gender Violence - Implicit Association Test to measure attitudes toward intimate partner violence against women

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria A. Ferrer-Perez ◽  
Andrés Sánchez-Prada ◽  
Carmen Delgado-Álvarez ◽  
Esperanza Bosch-Fiol
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Implicit Association Test ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Implicit Association ◽  
Implicit Measurement ◽  
Partner Violence Against Women

Abstract Attitudes play a central role in intimate partner violence against women and are related to its origin, to the responses of women who suffer violence, and to the settings where it occurs. In fact, these attitudes are recognized as one of the risk factors linked to violent perpetration and to public, professional, and victim responses to this type of violence. However, even though available research generally shows a broad rejection of this violence, it remains a serious social and health problem that has reached epidemic proportions. This suggests that the information available about these attitudes (obtained through explicit and direct measures, i.e., self-reports) may be distorted or influenced by factors such as social desirability. In this context, the overall objective of our research project is to provide multi-method measures (explicit and implicit) of attitudes toward intimate partner violence against women, and the main goal of this paper is to propose an instrument for the implicit measurement of these attitudes. In this regard, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) is the most common procedure used, providing a superior predictive validity compared to explicit measures for socially sensitive topics. We will present an exploratory study that describes its adaptation for our purposes, and the development of the Gender Violence - Implicit Association Test (GV-IAT) to use among Spanish-speaking populations, and discuss the strengths and limitations of this proposal.

Violence against women in heterosexual couples: A review of psychological and medico-legal considerations

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 113-124
Author(s):  
Valeria Tullio ◽  
Antonietta Lanzarone ◽  
Edoardo Scalici ◽  
Marco Vella ◽  
Antonina Argo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Effective Prevention

Intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) is the most pervasive violation of women’s rights worldwide, causing devastating lifelong damage. Victims can suffer physical, emotional or mental health problems, and experience detrimental effects in social, psychological and relational health with their families, especially children. Due to the complexity regarding violence against women in heterosexual couples, it is important to make a clear distinction between psychological and physical mistreatment, which also includes psychological violence. This differentiation is important in determining different emotional and psychological aspects of mistreatment in order to understand the reasons why some women stay in such relationships and to explain the personality profiles of victims and perpetrators. In this short narrative review, we have combined perspectives of depth psychology and attachment theory from studies on trauma, traumatic bonds and the perpetrator/victim complex in gender violence. We have also considered the growing literature on IPVAW as it relates to the medico-legal field. Our search strategy included intimate partner violence, attachment styles, risk factors and the victim/perpetrator relationship. Distinguishing the different types of IPVAW is a necessary step in understanding the complexity, causes, correlations and consequences of this issue. Above all, it enables the implementation of effective prevention and intervention strategies.

A therapeutic “innovation”…

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1673-1673
Author(s):  
A. Matos-Pires ◽  
F. Salazar-Garcia ◽  
E. Monteiro ◽  
D. Estevens
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Multiple Injuries ◽  
Frontal Lesion

Domestic violence, particularly violence against women, is a scourge that has killed this year in Portugal more than twenty women.Our aim is to present a case study on the issue of gender violence on a 49 years old woman with a prior diagnosis of bipolar disorder and its (terrible) consequences.The multiple injuries sustained over several years “treated” the bipolar disorder. Apart from a frontal lesion on CT there is now a set of neurological and psychiatric symptoms compatible with a diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) “boxer's dementia” like.

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