Isolamento social durante a pandemia da COVID-19 no Brasil e a violência doméstica contra a mulher: um entendimento a partir de gênero e patriarcado

Abstract

The delimited subject to this research refers to the increase in the number of reports domestic violence against women during sars-coV-2 pandemic in Brazil. The major issue in this research is based on the following questioning: In which way the patriarchy subsidizes for the increase in the number of reports of domestic violence against the female gender on the time of March and April, the most intense period of social isolation in Brazil due to the pandemic? The hypothesis sustained here is that the patriarchy structure of the men domination over women, as an excuse to the formation of hierarchy between genders, and is also responsible for the human rights and infra-constitutional rights violation, is accountable for what is called by the theoretical Carole Pateman “The law of male sex-right”. This male sex-right raises in men the sense of possession over women’s bodies, as if they were not rights holders as men are, encouraging the practice of discrimination and violence against the female gender. In this degree, the research proposes to comprehend, using mainly works of feminists authors that contributes to the subject of the present article, the women domestic violence phenomenon from gender relations that occasioned the material base of the patriarchy that is structured and institutionalized in the society nowadays.