Marias (im) possíveis nas tramas discursivas da rede de atendimento e enfrentamento à violência

Abstract

This Dissertation presents a case study on the network of care and coping with violence against women, based on the work of the Municipal Coordination of Women in the City of Bagé / RS, in 2019, when I provided legal assistance to women in situations of violence. The recurrence of care aroused in me the desire to investigate the historical, political, social and cultural conditions in which, in modern and contemporary societies, discursive and non-discursive practices that produce the subject woman "victim of violence" emerge. The analysis I made of the documents made about the care, allowed to launch a more detailed look at the cases of violence, at the local level, and to trace relationships between markers of gender, race, social class, age, housing conditions and schooling that make up the complexity of factors involved in the production of violence. The interviews with professionals who, like me, worked in the network, allowed the perception of the effects of patriarchal and heteronormative culture on the capture of women's bodies and the power-to-pleasure relationships that position them as subjects subjected by gender inequalities. In the shelter house, I found women cared for and protected by virtue of extreme violence, since childhood, and that remained in the affective relationships. The analysis based on post-structuralist theories leads me to understand that violence is engendered in the social life and culture of Western societies. The institutional provisions of the liberal state, such as power-to-legal, strengthen the distribution of subjects into binary categories – guilty or victims. The laws define the subject woman as "victim of violence" and protected to protection, maintaining the position of subalternity manufactured by patriarchy that educates women to remain in the domestic space, imprisoned to the condition of wife and mother. Patriarchate reinforced by the discourses circulating in the network, projecting the responsibility of the violation of women's bodies to themselves. Enunciation of the woman "victim of violence" who is a perverse invention incapable of defining women who, in one way or another, fight, resist, but who also, for many times, accept resigned the bonds of a precarious life. Denaturalizing discursive and non-discursive practices that operate in the education and government of the bodies and subjectivities of women in situations of violence, was the strategy that guided this writing. Fed on the courage to create devires-mulher and provoke the contagion of forces and powers that allow us to invent other lives.