This paper is a critical review on interventions with male perpetrators of violence against women, grounded in the revision of national and foreign literature on the theme and results from a case study with a qualitative approach of a governmental domestic and family violence prevention and action program from the South of Brazil. Besides working with women victims of violence, this program has been attending male perpetrators of violence against women since 2004, a pioneer service in this state, and at that time, one of the few developed in Brazil by a governmental organization. The results of this study showed that although these interventions with male perpetrators of violence represent an additional challenge to the complex field of prevention, attention and confrontation of domestic and family violence against women, they can, when developed along with activities already directed to women, create new possibilities to this field, contributing to decrease this violence and promote gender equity.
men; masculinities; violence against women