Abstract
This article discusses the pact against domestic violence implemented in the community Menino Chorão, located in the city of Campinas/SP. This pact, which was in effect between 2012 and 2016, has tensioned social power relations with the confrontation of domestic violence, one of the pillars of gender social construction. To analyze it, we consider the process of corporate and intersectional urbanization that reproduces gender-race-class structural inequalities. The pact is considered a victory of the urban periphery, even if ephemeral and incomplete, since it points to a possible overcoming of the capitalist--racist-patriarchal system through the organized social struggle by women that were capable of confronting an intensely reproduced violence in Brazilian society. It thus points to the potentiality of alternative rationality and modernity to capitalism.
urbanization; urban land occupation; domestic violence; Menino Chorão community; Campinas/SP
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