Sexual violence and other offenses against women with disabilities

Abstract

The essay aims to analyze two parameters that underpin violence in Brazil: being a woman and with disabilities. It discusses how disability enhances the social invisibility of women. The theoretical framework is in the fields of gender violence and disability, the concepts of femicide, the field of disabilities and their models and attitudinal accessibility and invisibility. The discussion, in an interdisciplinary literature
review, develops under the concepts of socio-legal invisibility and discrimination. The normative diplomas on the theme and reality are analyzed from the following perspectives: socio-legal invisibility, intangibility in public health, absence and exclusion. It is concluded that violence against women with disabilities is more invisible in the social and legal context, considering that both gender and disability enhance it and create the need for public policies to face serious violation of human rights.