Gender-based violence and black women's health: marxist-feminist approaches from Brazil

Abstract

In this article, we seek, from Unitary Social Reproduction Theory, to reflect domestic and family violence against black women particularities, understanding it as an urgent and serious public health issue. We use feminist-marxist authors who use the marxist method in order to demonstrate how the social phenomena of gender-based violence and structural racism are determinant in the order of capital. First, we seek to lay the foundations for the dialectical notion of social totality. Subsequently, we analyze the phenomena of gender-based violence and racism. Then, we understand how violence directly influences women's health. Finally, we realize how such phenomena affect black women's lives in Brazil. We found that the crisis of social reproduction reflects in the increase and complexity of violence, making necessary to build public policies with an anti-racist and anti- sexist bias, capable of imprinting a complex conception of health and dignity.