Violence against Amazon women.
This quantitative and exploratory study analyzed violence against Amazon women presented in print media according to type and severity, and whether aggressors fell under the Maria da Penha law. A total of 181 issues of a regional newspaper were consulted. Based on content analysis, 164 items addressing violence against women were selected and 46 were included in the corpus of analysis. Results were gathered in three thematic groups: women killed with cruelty, sexual violence against women regardless of age, and violence against women and the limitations of the Maria da Penha law. Violence against these women varied in terms of form and severity, including up to homicide. Women are submitted to sexual violence from childhood through adulthood. The enforcement of this law shows the community it has a means to cope with this social phenomenon.
Lima
Vera Lúcia de Azevedo
VL
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. veraluci@ufpa.br
Souza
Maria de Lourdes de
Mde L
Monticelli
Marisa
M
Oliveira
Marília de Fátima Vieira de
Mde F
Souza
Carlos Benedito Marinho de
CB
Costa
Carlos Alberto Leal da
CA
Brüggemann
Odaléa Maria
OM
D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008402:Mass Media; D014754:Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*