Violência política de gênero: uma violência simbólica

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss political violence gendered, one of the several forms of violence against women, as a symbolic violence, a conceptualized by the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, in his work “Masculine Domination”, to characterize a subtle, unnoticed, without physical coercion. For this purpose of this paper, bibliographical research was adopted as the methodology, it was sought, firstly, to understand the condition of women in a masculine social order from the myth of the eternal feminine, which places women as a perceived-being and opposite to man, based in sociological theories of Simone de Beauvoir and Bourdieu. It is observed that in masculine domination spaces were divided between the sexes, excluding women from public spaces, where the political sphere is located, it has become necessary to analyze this distribution and how women entered the political public space. This paper contemplates the Brazilian electoral legislation regarding women and its implications based on electoral statistics released by the Superior Electoral Court (of Brazil). It seeks to analyze the reflexes of political violence gendered in Brazilian politics and whether it is the possible cause of female underrepresentation. Finally, it is concluded that legal measures, such as the gender quota, have not been sufficient to encourage and increase female representation and participation in Brazilian politics, because it is a structural problem.