Name: DOMITILA MORAIS SANA
Publication date: 08/12/2025
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ANNABELLE BONNET | Examinador Externo |
| JULIANA ORTEGOSA AGGIO | Examinador Externo |
| MARIA CRISTINA LONGO CARDOSO DIAS | Presidente |
Summary: This work investigates how violence against women in Brazil structurally expresses and
reproduces the articulation between patriarchy, racism, and capitalism, configured as the
“symbiotic knot,” described by Heleieth Saffioti. It investigates two questions: What is the
relationship between patriarchy oppression and violence against women? Which philosophical
concepts can be mobilized to analyze violence against women as an expression of these forms
of oppression? Methodologically, it combines a literature review with the analysis of
secondary data for the period 2019–2025, drawn from the Brazilian Public Security Yearbook
of the Brazilian Forum on Public Security (FBSP), the Atlas of Violence (Institute for
Applied Economic Research and FBSP), and the National Survey on Violence against
Women (DataSenado). Chapter 1 maps the symbiotic knot—capitalism, patriarchy, and
racism—as well as its formulation, in dialogue with intersectionality. Chapter 2 discusses
gender, power, and violence, culminating in empirical analyses. The findings indicate the
concentration of femicides in the home and in intimate relationships, the overrepresentation of
Black women, and the aggravation produced by material and territorial vulnerabilities. This
work concludes that gender-based violence remains functional to the reproduction of the
social order as long as the mechanisms of the symbiotic knot persist; that women’s
emancipation is inseparable from a simultaneous critique of class exploitation and racism; and
that the symbiotic knot remains current and applicable both for interpreting Brazilian reality
and for guiding transformative action.
