Abstract

CARBONESI, Maria Anastácia Ribeiro Maia  and  GOMES, Candido Alberto. Human dignity: common ideal in equality and in difference - the case of Brazil. População e Sociedade [online]. 2020, n.34, pp.1-17.  Epub Dec 01, 2021. ISSN 0873-1861.

Despite social differences verticality, modernity established the horizontality of universal human rights, founded on the respect of human dignity for all. Gender is one of the least focused vectors of such a differentiation. Traditional patriarch created a power process, submitting women and sexual minorities, the latter in the pyramid’s basis. Brazil, facing deep social change, paces step by step in the rights conquest for these groups, victims of stigma and violence. This work analyses the social context, the violence parade, as well as emerging legislation in the last decades on the basis of sociology and anthropology. It approaches diverse violence modalities, including child marriage and active homophobia. It points out likely men chauvinist reactions to women and sexual minorities ascendant visibility in the populist framework in the world.

Keywords : gender; stigma; patriarchalism; human rights; Brazil..

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