A violência de gênero contra as mulheres em Uruguaiana/RS: uma análise das políticas públicas de enfrentamento

Abstract

This dissertation is part of the Graduate Program in Public Policy, Professional Master's in Public Policy at the Federal University of Pampa - Unipampa. Its general objective is to analyze how public management has been structuring the fight against violence against women in the municipality of Uruguaiana in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in order to guarantee, through public policies, the provision of services, programs and actions to protect and promote gender equality. In order to better achieve the results of the analysis, the following specific objectives were drawn up: 1) to analyse the configuration of the network for confronting and assisting women in situations of violence; 2) to ascertain how services and programmes are organized to offer intersectoral actions to confront violence against women; 3) to identify the political, economic, cultural and social obstacles to the realization of women's rights to a life without violence in Uruguaiana. This is a qualitative study which used the intersectional feminist methodology as an analytical tool, which proposes an analysis that takes into account the interactions between the markers of gender, class and race, using the results of this interaction to diagnose the recurring facts, as well as thinking about solutions based on this principle. The results indicate that the way in which intervention plans are designed and implemented to free users of public services from violence is still not enough, because the public policies designed to combat violence against women still do not intersect the culture of machismo and the patriarchal system as factors that cause violence in women's lives, and thus do not fully support women in the diverse difficulties they experience during the cycle of violence and the consequences of violence in women's lives until they achieve freedom and psychological and financial autonomy from their aggressors. At the same time, it was identified that machismo, the lack of qualifications of the professionals who provide care to women in situations of violence and the absence of actions to curb femicide make the actions of the protection services in Uruguaiana insufficient for women to transcend the situation of violence they experience.