Subjectivation processes of former sheltered women in institutional shelter for women victims of violence

Abstract

The present article deals with research on the processes of subjectivation of former sheltered women in the Tina Martins Women's Reference Center, in Belo Horizonte, which is a device of the public policy network for combating violence against women. We used the cartography method to produce an analysis of the relations between women and the shelter, in the rhizomatic weft between macro and micro politics. In the production of data, the following lines were drawn: of institutions (religion, family, and State); of power relations (the facets of the reproduction of violence by the State; class differences; the naturalization and individualization of violence against women; political participation as a strategy of resistance); of welcoming; and of autonomy. The shelter, we conclude, is a privileged space for the reconstitution of life projects and for the production of autonomy from singular and collective movements of subjectivation.