Resumen de Deep violence against women and maria da penha law

Valdeci Gonçalves da Silva

• This paper scrutinizes the bowels of violence against women, identifying the aggressor and attempting to bridge that violence with the symbolic violence from male dominance over centuries, emphasizing women predisposition to victimization and their body objectification. In this context, it analyzes Maria da Penha Law, sanctioned on August 7, 2006 by the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2006-2010), a tribute to Maria da Penha Maia Fernandes, a woman whose husband attempted to murder her twice, causing her to become paraplegic. It consists of a bibliographic study with the purpose of pointing out not only the explicit behaviors of gender-based violence but also ideologies with that potential. Thus, supported by structuralist, constructivist and psychoanalytic studies from various authors, whose references contributed to the perception, although recognizing the providential function of such law, of how questionable the implementation of such law was undergone and, therefore, its competence to stop the flux of virile violence. It was concluded that undervaluing a crystalized culture on male power according to which women are viewed as sexual objects, may have contributed to other forms of more aggressive violence against women.