Violência contra a mulher: quem mete a colher? o serviço social e a produção do conhecimento na área em questão

Abstract

Violence against women is a phenomenon that presents itself in the daily professional life of social workers, therefore the scientific productions in the area of Social Service can be considered an important indicator of the development of public policies for women to combat violence, as well as an important theoretical, political and analytical contribution on the subject in question. The relationship between Social Service and violence against women began in the late 1970s and developed together with the claims and struggles of the feminist movement. From this perspective, the present research brings as central theme the Social Service and the production of knowledge in the area about violence against women. The methodological approach sought to answer the following research problem: how do the productions in the field of Social Work periodicals thematize the phenomenon of violence against women and understand its confrontation? The objective was defined as: to understand how violence against women is thematized under the logic of Social Service knowledge in the scientific journals Katálysis and Serviço Social & Sociedade. As specific objectives: discuss theoretically the phenomenon of violence against women; identify the historical, legal and normative framework of combating violence against women in Brazil and map the scientific articles published in the main journals of the Social Service area - period from 2010 to 2020 - which refers to violence against women and its confrontation. For the methodological path was conducted bibliographic, from scientific articles found in the databases of the journals Katálysis and Serviço Social & Sociedade, had a fundamentally qualitative nature. Finally, we present an overview of the main concerns and debates about public policies for women, the social (un)protection system, and the violation of women's rights, which were launched to the field of Social Service in the last decade of the 21st century. In conclusion, we point out that the publications on our research theme from 2010 to 2020 were systematic and continuous. In this sense, it is correct to state that there is a lively and pulsating movement of research and debates that point to the debate on the various forms of violence against women in Social Work. That the commitment of the social worker researchers with the exercise of critical reflection on violence against women. The researches exposed in the articles studied denounced the authoritarianism of the State when it comes to impunity when it comes to guaranteeing women's rights. On the other hand, the uncompromising defense of the Maria da Penha Law was also present among the research findings. However, such defense did not eliminate the critical considerations to the referred legislation. And, regarding the violation of women's rights, we noticed that men are the main aggressors of women, and the study on the practices of violence in the private sphere, that is, in intrafamily or affective conjugal relationships are the most expressive. Another element present in the analyzed material is the understanding of violence as a public problem and the criticism to the bourgeois nucleus family model.