Um estudo bibliográfico sobre mulheres defiças submersas em sociedades de violência

Abstract

Historically women (over)live situations of gender-based violence, which result in severe consequences in daily lives. However, it is necessary to look deeply and understand how this structural violence shapes the world for women with disabilities. This paper aims to bring together research that addresses them as victims of several kinds of violence, at the intersection of gender inequality and ableism. In Brazil, socio-cultural perspectives on disability are unexplored and the available knowledge based on a biomedical gaze remains tied to prevention and rehabilitation agencies. From a socio-anthropological perspective, we have to consider segregation as the main factor shaping the interactions by prescriptions of infantilization, incapacity, abnormality, and dependence. The review includes the analysis of 15 researches on the topic of violence against women with disabilities between the years of 2011 and 2022. The outcomes of these inquiries confirm the hypothesis of double vulnerability – which means that disabled women are over exposed to domestic, sexual, psychological, and physical violence. In light of these results, empirical approaches can help to circumscribe the vulnerability and the ways of victimization. At the same time, it is necessary to advance methodologically in the design of empirical research that does not put these women in a situation of re-victimization.