Mulheres negras, self e violência sexual: pensando interseccionalidades junto a usuárias de um serviço especializado em Salvador, Bahia

Abstract

Sexual violence represents a serious public health problem that affects mostly black women (black and brown). This dissertation aimed to understand and analyze the dynamics of the self of black women in situations of sexual violence who are assisted in a specialized assistance service in sexual violence in Salvador (Bahia). To this end, it proposed to describe the profile of women who adhere to multidisciplinary follow-up as a result of a situation of sexual violence, to analyze the narratives of black women in situations of sexual violence considering the positions of their self, to perceive which repositioning and crossings intersectional aspects that pervade the self of black women in situations of sexual violence before and after the situation of violence and observe which strategies and resources are accessed by black women in situations of sexual violence, assisted by a specialized service, and how these can be associated with the process coping with violence and in their conceptions of themselves. To this end, in the light of the Theory of the Dialogical Self, Semiotic Cultural Psychology, the concept of Intersectionality and other contributions from Black and Decolonial Feminism, a bibliographic survey of productions on the subject was carried out and empirical research was carried out, through the analysis of medical records and of narrative interviews with seven adult black women who use a Reception Service for Women in Situation of Sexual Violence in Salvador (Bahia). The results were presented in three scientific articles, in which the first, entitled “Profile of users of a health service specialized in sexual violence before and during the COVID-19 pandemic”, through a quantitative-documentary study, compared the profile sociodemographic profile of users of the Health Service Specialized in Sexual Violence and the characteristics of sexual violence before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The second, which is entitled “Sexual violence by an intimate partner and the self from an intersectional perspective: case study”, using an idiographic case study with a user of the Service, sought to understand the Semiotic Affective Fields and dynamics of the self of women black women in situations of sexual violence by an intimate partner. The third article, “Crossroads in the assistance to black women in situations of sexual violence”, through a qualitative study and the construction of categories from the categorical-content analysis proposal, identified the challenges and possibilities in the assistance to black women in situation of sexual violence based on an intersectional and semiotic analysis, through narrative interviews with users of the Service. It was verified the importance of considering sexual violence as a public health problem, inseparable from the social, political, economic context and the result of gender, race and class inequalities. The results show the need to build public policies anchored in this understanding and the transformation of the perspective and social organization aimed at reducing the rates of black women affected by violence, taking intersectional theory and methodology as a reference. Concomitantly with this, the importance of constantly qualifying assistance in situations of sexual violence and considering the specificities and singularities of the public most affected by this violence - black women - was highlighted.