Mulheres surdas em Alagoas: inclusão social e reconhecimento nas políticas públicas de combate à violência doméstica.

Abstract

This research investigates the formulation and social participation of deaf women in public policies to combat domestic violence in Alagoas, in order to find out how these can interfere with the identity perceptions of these women as social subjects. It is a qualitative research, involving historical analysis, documentary research, access to quantitative data sources and the use of the narrative interview technique. In its development, it presents a bibliographical research that addresses themes such as the evolution of studies on disability, and discusses the importance of the social movement of people with disabilities in the construction of regulations that guarantee their full participation in society, a moment in which emphasis is given to the movement “nothing about us without us” and the deaf movement, when it fights for the recognition of its specificities. It presents the importance of building an inclusive political agenda that encompasses all social groups, from a perspective open to the social participation of individuals in this formulation. It makes a documentary analysis of public policies to combat domestic violence and bills aimed at people with disabilities, existing in the state of Alagoas, with the aim of identifying the participation of the deaf community and the role of political actors in the referral and formulation of these policies. It develops reflections on how the practices of signification produce meanings that involve power relations, including the power to define who is included and who is excluded, a determining factor for understanding how culture shapes the identity of individuals, by giving meaning to experience and by making it possible for them to opt, among the various possible identities, for a specific mode of subjectivity. For this, it uses the theoretical perspective on identity politics and the Theory of Recognition in Axel Honneth.