DISPUTES OVER NATIONAL POLICY TO COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN BRAZIL (2019-2022)

This article analyzes the strategies employed by feminist movements and countermovements in the dispute surrounding the National Policy to Combat Violence against Women (PNEVCM). It is based on the hypothesis that the feminist movement played a central role in formulating the policy, consolidating an agenda guided by principles of equality and social justice. However, over time, the PNEVCM was progressively permeated by neoconservative logic, resulting in the weakening and reconfiguration of the policy in line with ideological disputes that strain both the State and spaces for public deliberation (Biroli et al., 2020). Using a qualitative approach and the content analysis technique implemented in the ATLAS.ti software, the preliminary results indicate that, in the period 2019–2022, violence against women did not figure as a central axis of the disputes. In its place, "gender ideology" emerged as the main object of contestation. This shift reveals a process of depoliticization of gender-based violence, converted into a secondary issue in the face of a broader moral crusade. These findings suggest the need for further research, incorporating interviews with key actors, analysis of protests, and legislative and judicial debates, in addition to expanding the time frame to the period 2015 to 2025, in order to more accurately capture the historical trajectory of the disputes surrounding the PNEVCM (Nunes and Traumann, 2023; Amorim et al., 2024).