Perceptions and experiences of women active in the health field on gender violence

Abstract

This article is the result of a master’s research that aims to map and analyze the perceptions of women who work in the field of Brazilian Collective Health on gender violence experienced and expressed in their daily lives, from the outline of a broad study, entitled "Women of Collective Health: a portrait of who builds the field", built by the research-intervention-struggle movement of women active in this field, who form the "Adelaides Collective: Feminisms and Health This is a quanti-qualitative study, of the type intervention research, which starts from the method of cartography and the theoretical references of black feminist epistemologies. The results are presented based on the typification of violence perceived by women, their interface with the process of work in health and daily life, point to the persistence and severity of the violence identified in the daily life of women working in the field of Public Health and the possible contributions to gender studies, that is given by the deepening and analysis of this scenario from the articulation of the concepts of intersectionality, place of speech and politics of empowerment, and delineation of possibilities for coping with these violence.