Meanings of the matrimonial violence and concubines in Belém (decades of 1920 and 1930)

Abstract

The following arguments try to analyze how husbands and concubines used to think and practice forms of violence inside the coexistence in marriage and concubinage. According to it, this article concentrates on the idea that men and women executed several modalities of aggressions and that the violence was always interlinked with the attempt of maintenance of the relationships of power and force; by this reason it’s attempted to demonstrate that the violence is in any circumstance bearer of gradations and scales.