"Traçando vários planos pra poder contra-atacar": análise do papel do Poder Legislativo no enfrentamento à violência de gênero, o mandato de Gleide Ângelo em Pernambuco

Abstract

The performance of State Deputy Delegate Gleide Ângelo's mandate in combating gender violence in Pernambuco was investigated from the perspective of critical feminism, which understands violence as a structural phenomenon. The study analyzes the tension between this institutional political representation and the demands of social movements for a comprehensive and intersectoral protection policy. Adopting a qualitative approach, Thematic Reflective Analysis (TRA) was used, based on semi-structured interviews with representatives of nine (9) social movements, feminist activists, in addition to documentary analysis. The findings indicate that, although the mandate represents an important possibility for institutional resistance, its strategy, focused predominantly on public security and criminalization, is perceived by social movements as punctual and reactive, insufficient to promote the necessary structural transformation. The central critique lies in the risk that the absorption of feminist agendas by the State, via criminal justice, results only in rhetoric, reinforcing only the existing duality between victim and aggressor, and neglecting the material and structural conditions that perpetuate violence. It is concluded that public policies that transcend the penal logic and are truly intersectoral, aligned with the emancipatory demands of social movements, are urgent.