MULHERES VÍTIMAS DE VIOLÊNCIA SEXUAL E OS SIGNIFICADOS DE SUAS EXPERIÊNCIAS CORPORAIS E ESPACIAIS: TEU CORPO É O ESPAÇO MAIS TEU POSSÍVEL

Abstract

This work has as its guiding principle the following central question: How do women mean the relationship between body and space from the experience of sexual violence? To answer this question were conducted 11 interviews with women, between 18 and 29 old years, victims of sexual violence in the city of Ponta Grossa -PR and also in Porto Alegre - RS. The methodology used for the systematization of data is a proposal by Silva and Silva (2016), that dialogues between the qualitative and quantitative through representations of graphs, accompanied by a detailed analysis of semantic communities and networks of meanings of the interviews. The research shows common central points on sexual violence suffered by women interviewed: the body as a place of pain and empowerment; private space as a component of violence; the aggressor, in all cases, male; and a considerable part of the victims are in a vulnerable situation at the time of the sexual assault.