HISTORY AND GENDER RELATIONS:

SOCIABILITY AND SILENCING OF CONJUGAL VIOLENCE IN CARANGOLA - MG

Abstract

This text presents part of the data of the research that investigates violence against women´s in Carangola, a municipality in Zona da Mata, Minas Gerais. It was carried out based on the doctoral thesis "Woman and Patriarchate: a case study on violence against women in Carangola - MG (2006-2016)" of the first author, under the guidance of the second. It analyzes how the phenomenon of patriarchy still influences the behavior of men and women and how the type of local sociability determines the silencing of cases of gender violence, specifically marital violence. This case study alied qualitative and quantitative methodologies, since the choice of quali methodologies can be subordinated to the needs of responses of causal relations, not always possible from quanti approaches. In order to do so, she interviewed ten women who experienced contexts of conjugal violence and also applied 376 closed questionnaires in different parts of the city in order to know the reality of violence against women and to find unreported / reported cases. This article focuses on some quantitative data, resulting from the questionnaires applied. The data produced by the study show that there is silence of conjugal violence in the city of Carangola determined by the type of local sociability.