Rutas críticas: Mujeres enfrentando las violencias

Stela Nazareth Meneghel; Sandra Regina Martini Vial

doi:10.5565/rev/athenead/v0n14.533

Critical Routes: Women Facing Violence

Authors

Stela Nazareth Meneghel Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
Sandra Regina Martini Vial Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

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Abstract

This paper presents the Critical Routes International Seminar – Women Facing Violence , which took place in Porto Alegre in 2008. The seminar was promoted by the Graduate Program on Collective Health at Unisinos and by the Public Health School/RS and was supported by outstanding researchers working in the fields of collective health, and social and human sciences. Initially, we discuss some conceptual aspects about gender violence, its dimensions and its consequences for the health and the life quality of the affected women. Our understanding is that violence is one of the most effective methods of controlling women in societies scarred with gender hierarchies. The structure of the seminar focused on three main discussion themes: breaking up with the violence, mechanisms for working with gender and hearing the services. These themes were chosen aiming at looking for ways to help the women and to explore efficient mechanisms to combat, reduce and, if possible, eliminate the violence perpetrated against women. At the end of the seminar, we reiterate the political commitment on the accomplishment of the public policies to face violence and the fight against all inequality, discrimination and violence forms based on gender.

Keywords

rutas criticas, violencia de género, prácticas discursivas, género, critical routes, gender violence, discursive practices, gender

Author Biographies

Stela Nazareth Meneghel, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Médica, sanitarista, mestre e doutora em Medicina (UFRGS), pós-doutora no Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia Social da Universidade Autônoma de Barcelona. Professora adjunta da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos e da Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul.

Sandra Regina Martini Vial, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Cientista social, doutora em Evoluzione dei Sistemi Giuridici e Nuovi Diritti pela Università Degli Studi di Lecce (2001). Professora titular da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, da Fundação do Ministério Público, da Scuola Dottorale Internazionale Tullio Ascarelli e professora visitante da Universita Degli Studi Di Salerno. Diretora da Escola de Saúde Pública do Rio Grande do Sul.