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0072/2024 - Women’s Shelter, a prison in reverse: when the protection of victims imprisons them
Casa-Abrigo, uma prisão às avessas: quando a proteção às vítimas as aprisiona

Author:

• Caroline Dias de Queiroz - Queiroz, C. D. - <carolinedosdias@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2370-3564

Co-author(s):

• Liana Wernersbach Pinto - Wernersbach-Pinto, L. - <lianawep@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1928-9265
• Vera Lucia Marques da Silva - Silva, V.L.M - <vera.marques@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2595-2679


Abstract:

This article aimed to know a Shelter House for women in situations of intimate partner violence at imminent risk of death located in the state of Rio de Janeirothe perception of its professionals. To this end, the research had a qualitative approach and semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven professionals directly involved with the care and assistance to the user population of the shelter. The interpretation of the findings was based on thematic content analysis. In addition, the profile of the women and children sheltered in the year 2021 was drawn, based on the data provided by the institution, with the distribution of the frequencies of the observable variables. In conceptual terms, this work focused on intersectional feminist theoretical references. Among the results, it is argued that the shelter is permeated by contradictions,its normative idealizations to institutional practices: on the one hand, the shelter represents the possibility of salvation, that is, of interrupting the escalation of violence and, therefore, to prevent feminicide, but on the other hand, it appears as an upside-down prison, which “arrests” the victims. As a challenge, it points out the importance and urgency of thinking about new ways to guarantee protection to women who need this type of shelter, with flexibility of rules and internal regulations - which will necessarily demand public investment - in order to confer them greater autonomy and protagonism.

Keywords:

Violence against women, intimate partner violence, Women’s Shelter

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Queiroz, C. D., Wernersbach-Pinto, L., Silva, V.L.M. Women’s Shelter, a prison in reverse: when the protection of victims imprisons them. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2024/Mar). [Citado em 05/11/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/womens-shelter-a-prison-in-reverse-when-the-protection-of-victims-imprisons-them/19120?id=19120



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