Women who beat women: reports of the occurrence of domestic violence in homoaffective relationships of lesbians in belém, Brazil
International Journal of Development Research
Women who beat women: reports of the occurrence of domestic violence in homoaffective relationships of lesbians in belém, Brazil
Received 28th March, 2018; Received in revised form 19th April, 2018; Accepted 24th May, 2018; Published online 30th June, 2018.
Copyright © 2018, Renata dos Santos Alencara et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The study aims to give visibility to the subject of domestic violence in homoaffective relationships. Analyzes the occurrence reports of the Police Department of Women's Assistance [Delegacia de Atendimento à Mulher – DEAM] of Belém, Pará, Brazil, registered by lesbian women in situations of domestic violence. Uses the Content Analysis technique to explore the 48 (forty-eight) reports that were collected, referring to the period from 2011 to 2015. Its results show that a set of abusive behaviors covered by psychological/emotional, physical and patrimonial violence is one of the main manifestations of domestic violence in the affective relationship between two women.
