“Com quantos tapas se faz uma mulher?”: violências incapacitantes, impotência do/as profissionais e tramas na rede de atendimento à mulher em Dourados, MS

Abstract

The objective of this study was to understand the operating logic of the Rede de Atendimento a Mulher em Situação de Violência in the city of Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul. In this sense, focused on partnerships between institutions and services (specialized or not) that are part of this network that operates in coping violence against women. The work is important because the opportunity to follow the moment this network consolidation with the creation of the document municipal entitled Termo de Cooperação da Rede de Atendimento a Mulher em Condição de Violência of the city of Dourados, whit objective to regulate and formalize partnerships between institutions and services in this area. For this, we used a diary to record the meetings between the representatives of the institutions and services participating in the network. These meetings were happened from April 2014 to August 2015. For to analyze this document were taken as reference to Política Nacional de Enfrentamento a Violência contra a Mulher (2007) and Law 11.340 / 2006, known as Lei Maria da Penha. Besides, questionnaires were also applied and out semi-structured interviews with as professionals from various institutions that make up the network. Among the results, establish the existence of a feeling of impotent on the part of the professionals who integrate oh the network. At the same time, the need of a gender perspective in the work of these professional intervene to understand and the set of demands, which contributes to the recurrence of violence. Therefore we conclude that gender perspective can change the way of coping the violence against women.