Intersectionality and violence against women in covid-19 pandemic times: dialogues and possibilities

Abstract

This essay discusses the relations between violence against women and social isolation during the covid-19 pandemic, based on the dialogue between the theoretical contributions of intersectional studies and those of the Institutionalist Movement, using Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of difference. Social isolation in the pandemic appears both as an analytical framework and as an intersection category, which can be understood as an event in the context of institutionalism. This entails, therefore, to envision intersectionality from the post-structuralist perspective. This study sought to open spaces for discussion based on contributions from the field of Collective Health, ranging from health to social and human sciences, reflecting on the expanded concept of health in its several different interfaces. From this perspective, the direct causal link between social isolation and violence against women was displaced by a social-historical-political analysis that articulates the singular, micro-social and the macro-social contexts, unveiling the inequalities and violence already experienced.

Keywords:
Violence Against Women; Domestic Violence; Intersectionality; Pandemics