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Subordination of gender: reflecting on the vulnerability to domestic violence against women

Objective:

This article has the purpose of reflecting on violence against women of gender performed in the familial spaces, especially the connection between gender subordination of inside the family environment and the vulnerability to such kind of violence.

Results:

History shows subordination of gender and violence against women interlaced and affirmed through the construction of gender in societies. The women form a group and continuously which is violated by several means, such as physical, oral, and sexual abuses and aggressions from partners or ex-partners, relatives, friends, unknown people, public institutions or by the State.

Conclusion:

For the health services to be prepared for the diseases and injuries deriving from the domestic violence is essential to understand women's vulnerability to violence an indicator of the social inequities and inequalities that surpasses the concept of risk.

Violence Against Women; Domestic Violence; Gender Identity


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