ORPHANHOOD AND FEMINICIDE: intertwining of political, social and emotional dimensions in the narratives of daughters of murdered women
Femicide; Orphanhood; Gender-based violence; Emotions; Politics.
The challenges to the effectiveness of public policies capable of preventing the homicide of women based on their gender, and of society in breaking with the hegemony of patriarchy, have as one of their most perverse effects a condition, generally invisible, but which affects children and adolescents around the world, orphanhood due to femicide. Considering the social relevance of the theme, this study proposed to analyze and understand the experience of orphanhood due to feminicide based on the narratives of adult women who experienced the violent loss of their mother in childhood or adolescence. Based on these assumptions, we carried out an integrative literature review that aimed to construct the state of the art on the topic. Furthermore, we seek to understand the role of political, social and emotional dimensions in the constitution of ways of experiencing violent loss; analyze how the mourning for maternal feminicide and subsequent losses were presented and given meaning by the participants in their interface with the public and collective dimension of this crime. Two case studies were carried out with adult women using the narrative interview method as a reception and listening strategy and, later, these narratives were transcribed and subjected to Discourse Analysis. The participants' trajectories are marked by multiple forms of violence, producing emotions such as fear, helplessness and insecurity that interfere with emotional social relationships and reverberate into adulthood. Such emotions are predominantly reduced to a clinical-therapeutic and individual dimension, mischaracterizing the political, public and collective dimension that involves femicide and its effects on the life trajectories of surviving daughters.