Naturalization, reciprocity and marks of marital violence: male defendants' perceptions

• Autor(a) principal: Paixão,Gilvânia Patrícia do Nascimento
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Pereira,Alvaro, Gomes,Nadirlene Pereira, Sousa,Anderson Reis de, Estrela,Fernanda Matheus, Silva Filho,Ubirajara Ramos Pereira da, Araújo,Igor Brasil de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672018000100178
• topic: Domestic Violence; Intimate Partner Violence; Genre; Masculinities; Public Health

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze male criminals' perception about marital violence. Method: An exploratory, descriptive, qualitative study undertaken with 23 men who were criminally prosecuted for marital violence. A multimethod data collection was conducted, with individual interview and focal group techniques combined, between May and December 2015. The data collected were initially categorized using the NVIVO® 11 software program, and then organized using the Collective Subject Discourse method. Results: the collective discourses reveal that, in the male's perception, conjugal violence is inherent in a marital relationships: it is a private, reciprocal problem that leaves body marks. Conclusion: gender dissymmetry as a social construct is evidenced, signaling the need to create spaces for reflection and re-signification of men and women, from a gender perspective.