Violência contra lésbicas no Brasil: uma revisão integrativa de um problema social em construção

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze violence against lesbians in contemporary Brazil, taking as a context the efforts of the LGBTQIA+ movement in relation to the constitution of “subject of rights” (Aguião, 2018) amid the folds of the conception of rights related to sexual rights (Carrara , 2015). Visibility as a form of strategy to advance social and political agendas (Efrem, 2016) is critically reviewed (Mason, 2002) to think about the social problem of violence against lesbians. The method used was the integrative review, the materials analyzed were theses and dissertations and the database used was the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD). Among the main results, it is possible to highlight violence against lesbians appearing more frequently in the domestic and family spheres. The most common type of violence is physical and psychological violence, although sexual violence is a recurring theme and requires further investigation. As for visibility in the face of violence, a strategy intensely used by the LGBTQIA+ community, especially trans people, transvestites and gay men, when it comes to lesbian women, this strategy seems to be “inhabited” in a different way. Halberstam's (2005) propositions about queer time and space allow us to place lesbian women in the face of an anachronism when it comes to inhabiting the norms of a society structured around a nuclear, heterosexual, bourgeois and white family model. At this point, I propose throughout the dissertation to think about lesbian invisibility being “inhabited” based on the concept of agency (Mahmood, 2019).