Masculinidade patriarcal: o que os homens pensam sobre a violência contra as mulheres nas relações conjugais?

Abstract

This course conclusion work aimed to analyze how the formation of male identity under the influence of patriarchy affects the maintenance of violence against women in marital relationships, with a view to contributing to the elucidation of the presence of sexist and sexist representations. in the conception of masculinity. As a methodological strategy to 1 Acadêmica do curso de Serviço Social da Universidade Federal do Pampa. Orcid: 0000 -0002-2950-0696. Email: luizaluz.aluno@unipampa.edu.br 6 reach the general objective, the following specific objectives were elaborated: to apprehend the perceptions that men have about the violence that women suffer in the conjugal sphere; understand, through male understanding, what leads subjects to perpetrate domestic violence and identify the position of men in the face of the complaint and the situations of violence. The study had a qualitative character and was characterized by being exploratory and descriptive. For the analysis of reality, historical-dialectical materialism and its core categories (historicity, totality and contradiction) were used. Linked to the Marxian method, the critical social theory of intersectionality was used as an analytical tool for apprehending the cross-oppressions that shape women's experiences in contexts of patriarchal violence. To collect the data, a field survey was carried out with the application of a questionnaire. The sampling was intentional, non-probabilistic, with 10 male users of the Social Assistance Reference Center (CRAS) in the city of Quaraí/RS. For data analysis, the content analysis proposed by Bardin (2011) was used. The research results contributed to the understanding that the confrontation of patriarchal violence against women and the deconstruction of patriarchal masculinity, while the mechanism of perpetuation of sexist ideology will happen through education and the anti-sexist struggle. It is noteworthy that the constitution of a patriarchal masculinity contributes to the maintenance of men's privilege over women's bodies. In addition, sexist education, when shaping a masculinity consistent with the patriarchal system, directly affects violence against women in marital relationships to be naturalized, hidden and disseminated as a way of maintaining and reinforcing the male dominator identity of men.