Women, public policies and fight against gender violence

Abstract

This article focuses on affirmative action policies for Brazilian women, in their historical context. The goal is to demonstrate how these policies are built, engendered or articulated through the rights guaranteed throughout history. It is a theoretical text that points out the trajectories of affirmative actions, relations of inequality, violence and how the feminist movement became involved in these issues. The foundations used in this paper are theoretical frameworks that study gender relations; social movements, public policies and social inclusion. Two parts are presented here: feminism, gender and violence; and affirmative action to combat violence against women. It should be emphasized that this debate makes it possible to understand that violence against women is a violation of human rights and therefore affects all social classes.