A cidade em gênero: um estudo sobre o contexto urbano da violência contra mulher em São Luís-MA

Abstract

This paper refers to a research of a theoretical and empirical nature, parto of the undergraduate thesis of the Architecture and Urbanism course at the State University of Maranhão. The theme “CITY IN GENDER: A study of the urban context of violence against women in São Luís, MA” is conceived through the main social dimension of the current urban central objective, sustentability, highlighting the needs of the city's perception of the historically forgotten point of view: the women’s view. Through the historical understanding of its socially imposed charges as a category, we consolidate the theoretical basis in an interdisciplinary way to comprehend its past, its present and consequently how this reflexes into violence against women in the city environment. The goal of this research is to see the urban context of the violent acts which were reported in spaces of collective use in the capital of Maranhão, granting us with the effect of spatial of its composition. For this reason,the discussion is subdivided in 3 general chapters. The first one is focused on data collection carried out jointly with the Brazilian Women’s Police Station (DEM) of the Casa da Mulher Brasileira in São Luis (MA), which allowed us to map the number of cases reported to the city’s neighborhoods during the proposed analysis period (first semester of 2019). Subsequently, we will resonate existing and important works on urban analysis through a gender perspective in an international and national level. To do so, we conducted this study of own on the neighborhood that has more prominence in this context of violence against women, allowing us to draw, finally, possible ways to change this current reality.