"OS CASOS DE VIOLÊNCIA SEXUAL NÃO SÃO UMA DEMANDA MUITO COMUM NOSSA"

Uma etnografia sobre a produção da "violência sexual" a partir dos atendimentos em um núcleo especializado da Defensoria Pública do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

In this article, I propose a reflection on some of the implications caused by the way the services provided in a specialized center of the Public Defender's Office of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the NUDEM - Núcleo Especial de Defesa dos Direitos da Mulher e de Vítimas de Violência de Gênero (Special Defense Center Of the Rights of Women and Victims of Gender-based Violence), where I did a fieldwork between August and December 2022. I intend to show how the way the services are carried out can produce different categories to name the violence suffered by the women who seek the service. Based on the description of the routine of the sessions, I show how "sexual violence" cases become a demand of NUDEM through several categories, even though the center cannot judicialize them. This happens because the people who perform the legal services have the goal of both identifying the appropriate legal procedures and filing a lawsuit, by listening to the women's reports, as well as making them recognize the gender-based violence they have experienced, beyond the interest in judicializing the case. In this way, the focus on how the services are carried out has resulted in a (re)construction of the questions that previously guided the research, since it was important to notice the participation of the Public Defender's Office in cases of "rape", which is a crime whose responsible for filing a complaint is the Public Prosecutor’s Office.