Mulheres em situação de violência doméstica no contexto da pandemia da Covid-19

Abstract

The article on screen discusses domestic violence against women in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, considering the increase in the number of cases in this health and humanitarian crisis. Its objective is to discuss and problematize some of the main social determinants of domestic violence, highlighting the relations of exploitation/domination that result from patriarchal gender relations, also highlighting the relations of class and race. It also seeks to give visibility to the types of violence that most affected women during this period of pandemic. It is a qualitative research, with data collected from bibliographic and documentar research and analyzed using the dialectical-critical method. It is noticed that the isolation/social distancing, necessary to reduce the transmission of the virus, brought several consequences to society, one of them being the increase in family life in households, which resulted, among other situations, in the increase in cases of domestic violence against women, many of whom already suffered from this type of violence, but who ended up becoming more exposed and vulnerable. In view of the plurality with which violence against women manifests itself, in this pandemic scenario, femicide was the most growing form, revealing itself as the cruelest way of violating women's rights. Another relevant aspect of this research was the decrease in the records of complaints of domestic violence against women in the pandemic, which decreased every month that the covid-19 pandemic progressed.