O “grito”: discurso de resistência através da Lei Maria da Penha

Abstract

Through a history of subjugation that works by patriarchal ideology, where men have supremacy over women, this dissertation aims to look at the discursive sequences present in a Police Inquiry, the corpus of this work, which deals with violence against women, sentenced under the Law Maria da Penha. This, understood here, through the resistance bias. The aim is to understand the “yell” of women as a discourse of resistance, as a fissure in the ideology of male dominance. Therefore, in light of the French Discourse Analysis theory, this research will answer the question: “Is the Maria da Penha Law a resistance discourse?” Under a scenario of domestic violence, this study analyzes the effects of meaning produced by the speeches of the subjects of the corpus, with regard to the understanding of subject positions: clerk, witnesses, aggressor, victim and judge, according to the respective discursive formations in the operation of the Police Inquiry; it also addresses the Maria da Penha Law and the position-subject-woman, to arrive at the analysis chapter entitled “the silence that yells through discourses” and to explore the discursive materialities that evoke effects of meaning in a conjuncture of women's resistance. Considering the Maria da Penha Law as a historical landmark in Brazil for the fight for the integrity of women, there is a discourse of rupture and displacement in the Law regarding the production conditions of a patriarchal society, ideologically and historically crossed. Finally, this dissertation focuses on looking at the statements coming from the woman's “yell for help”, from the effects of meaning emerging from the Police Inquiry's discourses in the face of violence against women.