REVEALING INVISIBILITY: PATRIMONIAL VIOLENCE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF FOOD FIXATION FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS

Abstract

Inscribed in an interdisciplinary approach and with an emerging theme, the research object reveals
complexity and the need to approach social dynamics and family relationships. Civil and criminal
actions arising from domestic and family violence against women lack more effective policy
responses, since their records do not reveal the true extent of the problem. In several regions of Brazil
countless cases of violence suffered by women by their companions or ex-companions have never
been registered in police stations through the Bulletin of Occurrence. They also end up covering the
intergenerational impacts and the search for access to justice. It was found that 72% of the victims of
feminicide had never denounced the mistreatment previously suffered. Gaps in the production of
knowledge and in the legal approach are characterized, with emphasis on the idea of financial
dependence and not autonomy. How important is food fixation for victims of domestic violence?
However, the present study is justified considering that it is a matter of social and family impact,
discussed in the academic and scientific fields. The objective of this study was to provide a
documentary and historiographic analysis about the importance of food fixation for domestic violence
victims, especially women, through a literature review. The guarantees enshrined in Law 112.340 /
06 (Maria da Penha Law) deserve to be used in addition to a purely normative legal culture. As a
result, seek to improve the instrumentalisation of the protective measures provided for in the Maria
da Penha Law, to promote an increase in the security of the integrity of the victim that denounces
domestic violence, and to strengthen the idea that the human rights of women are a part: inalienable,
integral and indivisibility of universal human rights.