Violence against women: analysis of women’s identity who suffer of domestic violence

• Autor(a) principal: Vigário, Carolina Barbosa
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Paulino-Pereira, Fernando César
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Psicologia (Fortaleza. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.ufc.br/psicologiaufc/article/view/1483
• topic: Violence Against Women; Gender; Empowerment; Violência Contra a Mulher; Gênero; Empoderamento.

Violence, as a social phenomenon, is historically present in everyday social relations, intrinsic to the process of civilization and it is manifested in different ways. Violence in relationships between partners expresses affection and the dynamics of power and, mostly, denounces relations of subordination and domination. It is largely directed against women, regardless of their social status or the degree of economic development. This study tried to make the analysis of the woman’s identity in relation to violence with their partners, identifying values and identity processes in everyday circumstances and dynamics of the actors involved. For this, we used as methodology the actionresearch, which had as instruments of data collection the “Diário de Campo”, “Escuta Terapêutica-educativa”, buoyed by psychosocial intervention. The results that was obtained by the analysis of the woman’s identity showed us the difficulties faced by women who suffer domestic violence in exercising the ability to guide her own life, when she needs to make some decisions and, also, to construct new identities and to make them understand that gender violence must be changed, through deconstructing relationships of inequality between men and women and restructuring the affection, personal values that can transform her social relations.