The World Can Only Look at Me, But Not See Me: Gender-Based Violence in Brazil

Abstract

This study aims to discuss violent relationships within the current scenario of the Covid-19 pandemic, promoting reflections on how fear, both individual and collective, is rooted on individual and subjective matters, but also on shared and concrete experiences. Besides, issues prior to the pandemic erupted with greater vehemence in this period, so that violent episodes against women became even more frequent especially in the domestic environment, mainly due to social isolation and unemployment. This paper focuses on a specific narrative built throughout sessions so as to provide a broader reflection on the theme. Thereby, the process of data collection for this research was supported by a qualitative methodology, having as an illustration a clinical fragment.