The war of men and the lives of women. The interfaces between urban planning, violence against women and public security in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Abstract

This paper intends to discuss the invisibility of violence against women on the public security agenda and the effects of urban violence from its interface with urban planning. In this sense, we aim to demonstrate the effects of urban violence on women's lives, highlighting the uneven territorial pattern in which violence against women is expressed in the city of Rio de Janeiro and how this selectivity is structured and structuring by the patriarchy in its intersectionality with race and class. In addition, it is a fundamental part of the analysis to observe the territorialization of violence against women in relation to the implementation of other public policies, here, especially the public security policy. The reflection developed in this text will be based on data on the violent death of women in the city of Rio de Janeiro provided by the Institute of Public Security of the State of Rio de Janeiro (ISP).

Keywords:
Public Security; Violence against Women; Patriarchy; Urban Violence; Urban Planning; Institutional Sexism