Patriarcado, feminicídio e relações de gênero no Brasil e em Alagoas: uma tentativa de interpretação histórica

Abstract

The present monograph aims to analyze the aspects related to the roots of Brazilian patriarchy and machismo within the historical process, with its biggest consequences or consequences that are the forms of domestic violence, femicide, embarrassment, rape, abortion or any other form of violence. violence against women still present today. The process of exclusion of women has a Brazilian socio - cultural tradition and is rooted to this day through the macho look and Brazilian patriarchy. The historical bias also highlights an attempt to analyze the rise of women in the labor market through the industrialization process in the late nineteenth century, from their social exclusion to their process of struggle in Brazil and Alagoas and the system of urbanization in the country, which women were slowly acquiring a new dimension in the quality of life. There was a brief approach with reference to “History of Humanity” presenting the bad treaties of violence suffered against women in prehistoric and middle ages. Also noteworthy is the importance of the 1988 Constitution for the issue of gender in Brazil as a form of protection of the human being, which states that: “Men and women are equal in rights and obligations under this Constitution”. Focus on the Maria da Penha Law of 11.340 / 2006 having a relevant role in combating domestic violence, as a way of protecting women in their domestic space and in their various types of aggression such as: physical, sexual and psychological.