Coletivo empoderamento feminino em Mato Grosso do Sul: estudo sobre violência contra a mulher na universidade

Abstract

Violence is a social issue that should be treated as a public health issue, however it is not always properly registered or analyzed. The phenomenon of violence has been present since the emergence of humanity, however, studies that seek to understand and investigate violence against women started in the 1980s when policies and views on women began to gain visibility, as research on university violence are even more recent. In this sense, this research sought to study and understand the phenomenon of violence against women in universities based on the experience of members of a female empowerment collective. The investigation was undertaken with a Female Empowerment collective based on a qualitative approach, with a descriptive and exploratory perspective of the results. The research participants form a Collective, entitled Coletivo Feminine Maiana Barbosa, composed of women from different undergraduate courses at the university, aged between 18 and 30 years. To conduct the study, semi-structured interviews with individual application were used, based on a script built specifically for this purpose, whose questions were about the types of violence, women's safety in different spaces and denunciation of violence. Five students from the applied human and social sciences courses participated in the study who got to know the collective through other women or through social networks, who spoke about the research theme from their experiences listing types of violence, the way in which these violate their rights and how they produce an inferiority on the female figure. It is hoped that through the debate raised in this research, new fields and looks to the violence suffered by women inside and outside the university emerge and that this theme can be studied more fully, aiming that safety measures and care for female life can be always the focus of productive debates and discussions.