Entre as quatro paredes no espaço doméstico: violência doméstica contra o homem sob perspectiva da mulher moderna

Abstract

The objective of this study is to understand the influence that men's resistance to women's self-construction has on the practice of women's psychological violence, considering the fact that women are gaining more spaces of freedom and autonomy as regards to their capacity make Choices and decisions in spaces within societies in which there is still practice and discourses of reproduction of male domination. We argue that domestic violence against men is associated with the initiatives of women to claim for themselves the autonomy of building a feminine identity based on the principles of modernity. We find in the theoretical proposal of Touraine the concepts of subject and actor that served as the basis for the analysis and interpretation of data obtained only from women who assumed that they have already committed acts that represent domestic violence against their partners with whom they share the Same residence. The qualitative approach we have adopted, together with the hypothetical-deductive methods, have allowed us to start from a hypothesis and at the same time to value women's interpretation of their experiences. The interviews develop in their daily lives within the domestic field practices of construction of two categories of identitary, independent woman and participatory woman in the family life. The families in which they find themselves are a space where they are subject to the imposition of rules by stop of the partners who seek to impose an identity of woman submission. The encounter between the desire to be independent and participatory and the male resistance leads to psychological violence against man, as a means of gaining space to gain recognition of his decisions. The action of the subject of self-construction and of the actor of change of the social space competes for the woman to incur acts of psychological domestic violence against her partner, who also contributes to these acts of violence.