Significado da violência sexual na manifestação da corporeidade: um estudo fenomenológico

Abstract

This phenomenological study aimed at understanding the meaning of sexual abuse in the manifestation of corporeity. It was performed at an outpatient clinic for victims of sexual abuse from a teaching hospital in Curitiba/Brazil, from February to May of year 2007. The statements were obtained by means of recorded open interviews performed with nine women. The analysis resulted in the following theme: Living with fear in the process of co-existence. It was evidenced that fear influenced those women's social life, brought about insecurity, affected their being and their being in the world and, consequently, their corporeity. Health professionals must be qualified to perceive women victims of social abuse in their multidimensionality so the care they deliver are not merely instrumental, rather expressive, that is, subjectively-oriented. Thus, they will be able to help those victims transcend their experience and find a new meaning to their existence, and care delivery will be humanized, ethical and sympathetic.

Chemical dependency as a risk factor for domestic violence against women

“…The consequences of these feelings reflect on the physical and mental health of these women, limiting their productive capacity, quality of life and self-steem 10 . In this sense, the presence of the nurse in assisting victims of domestic violence is essential because they are able to perform professional assessment and implement nursing care actions, both technical and expressive, directed to prevention and promotion of health and, consequently, to improve the quality of life 11 .…”

“…Technical nursing care actions relate to physiological aspects and expressive actions are related to subjectivity, in which stored fears, ghosts, and afflictions that surround the daily life of these women are located, and may affect the way of being in the world 11 . Looking into the subjectivity of women victims of domestic violence provides, among other things, understanding of the risk factors.…”

Fragments of Female Corporeality in Victims of Domesticviolence: A Phenomenological Approach

“…However, the fear begins to be felt daily, manifested in corporeality, and makes the women perceive themselves as victims, constant hostages of their partners. 13 The experience of women victims of domestic violence is indecipherable, because their daily life is permeated by the uncertainty of not knowing when and how they will be beaten. In the face of sexual violence, these women adopt an attitude of submission, and feel lonely and deeply hurt by being forced to submit as a sexual object to the other.…”

“…In order to grasp human subjectivity and transcend superficiality, it is necessary to enter the worlds of these women to capture their lived experience through perceptive and attentive listening, 13 because by coexisting with the offender after filing a police report of domestic violence, these women attribute meaning that manifests in the form of expression of their body, in their body.…”

O Corpo Feminino Invadido

“…Trata-se de um estudo bibliográfico, de caráter interdisciplinar, fundamentado em livros, artigos científicos e relatórios de pesquisas, visando estabelecer uma interrelação entre as perspectivas da Saúde e do Direito, ao discutir o corpo feminino em um contexto sociohistórico. Entre os autores privilegiados no aporte teórico deste trabalho estão Colling (2015), Corso (2016), Labronici (2010) e Faundes (2007).…”