Triste, louca ou má: as representações sociais e as faces da violência contra as mulheres

Abstract

This final graduation project aimed to understand and discuss social representations and the multiple facets of violence against women. Based on a quantitative and qualitative approach with a critical and analytical perspective, research was conducted to explore the social, cultural, and historical context of this issue, recognized as a significant expression of the social question. Throughout the text, a theoretical framework grounded in an intersectional perspective examines both the impacts of this violence on women and the rights achieved over time, drawing on contributions from renowned authors such as Beauvoir (1967; 1970), Brazil (1988), Saffioti (2015), Davis (2016), among others. In the final considerations, we point to the need for studies on violence against women to be perceived within patriarchal and racist relations as structuring the capitalist mode of production in Brazil.