Pistas para análise da violência contra as mulheres em tempos de crise: aproximações e desafios no contexto de pandemia no Brasil

The new coronavirus pandemic that hit the planet has demonstrated the structural crisis of capital and, far from proving itself a “democratic” infection, brought about breakdowns in many countries, revealing contradictions, inequalities and the limits of capitalism as a mode of production and reproduction of life. In this article, we seek an approach to analyze violence against women in this context, acknowledging it as both product and producer of a system that increasingly demands the bodyterritory of women in particular for its maintenance. Therefore, from an enlarged reading of violence against women, the text shows connections between many expressions of this violence and its centrality to new forms of capital accumulation in critical times, which, in a pandemic setting, become ever-increasingly exacerbated forms of exploitation and oppression of women, women of color in particular.