Sempre foi sobre nós: political gender violence in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: de Araújo Silva Resende, Joelma
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Torres de Alencar Costa, Margareth
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista odisséia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/odisseia/article/view/32199
• topic: Escrita de si. Gênero. Violência política.; Self writing. Gender . Political violence.

This article aims to investigate how gender political violence has been presented from the book Always was about us - Reports of gender political violence in Brazil, organized by Manuela d’Ávila. It is noted that the woman suffers violence in the political sphere so that she is forced to withdraw from the public space and return to the private/domestic space. This study will cover the notions of Writing about oneself and gender in texts written by women who experienced/experience these aggressions. For the study, readings of Lejeune (2008) will be done as a basis for studies on Self-writing; Lerner (2019) and Kern (2021) who will base the discussion on violence against women, among other scholars who bring contributions on the researched topic. It is noticed that the woman suffers several forms of violence in the political universe, evidenced in the texts of memories of the present study.