Mergulhando nas águas das emoções: a dinâmica do ciclo da violência doméstica nas relações afetivo-amorosas de mulheres negras

Abstract

This study presents reflections on the implications between race, gender and emotions in the process of permanence of black women in situations of domestic violence. With a qualitative methodology, the study started with qualitative epistemology to construct and interpret the information, it also used feminist theories of gender and race, studies on race and the theory of subjectivity of cultural-historical psychology to make an interdisciplinary reading of the phenomenon. Conversations were held with two black women, cisgender, without children with the ex-partner of the relationship in which they lived domestic violence, financially independent, who resided in the interior of the State of Bahia. The data were analyzed from the constructive-interpretative method, through the instruments "conversational systems" and "sentence complement", which were elaborated according to the research objectives. The cycle of violence can be seen as an important tool to highlight the emotional aspects involved in the dynamics of relationships with domestic violence, which together with the concepts of race and gender possibly constitute the affective bonds within these relationships. It is noteworthy that among women, black women are in a situation of greater vulnerability due to the intersection of sexism and racism still present in our society. The literature points out that remaining in the cycle of violence negatively affects women's lives and their mental health, denouncing the situation of extreme social and emotional vulnerability in which they find themselves. It was concluded that the difficult decision to break the cycle involves a diversity of aspects that constitute domestic violence, where there is a search for reception and affection on the part of these women, since in their lives there is little or no offer of love, which makes them more vulnerable. Breaking with the logic of white romantic-bourgeois love and building ways to love and form community based on African values is a possible way to combat the experience of this violence in the lives of black women.