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The waste from fruit and vegetables and the discharge of domestic and industrial wastewaters in an unacceptable way cause serious problems for the majority of cities in Brazil and the rest of the world. The residues from fruit and vegetables and domestic and industrial wastewater could be treated jointly by the process of anaerobic digestion resulting in the production of energy and a reduction in negative environmental impacts. The principal objective of this work was to study the kinetics of the process of anaerobic biostabilization of vegetable residual solids (RSV), treated at different concentrations of total solids with the view to optimizing energy production and anaerobic biostabilization. To execute this study a completely mixed, compartmentalized anaerobic reactor comprising three compartments separated by glass plates with unit volumes of 25 litres, was designed, installed and monitored,. The resulting products from anaerobic biostabiliztion in the form of semi-solids were monitored weekly except for pH, total alkalinity and volatile fatty acids which jointly with biogas production were monitored twice weekly during a the total monitoring period of 294 days. The work was divided into two stages. In the first stage a substrate comprising twelve different types of vegetable solid waste with a total solids concentration equal to 75, 4 g/L was used. In the second stage the concentration of total solids applied to compartments C1, C2 and C3 were 40, 22.6 and 23.2 g/L respectively, with the with the level of humidity being adjusted by the addition of domestic sewage. The maximum percentage of methane in the biogas was 61.5% obtained in the first compartment (C1) of the reactor during the second experimental stage. The maximum kinetic constants for bioconversion (k) for COD total and soluble, TKN and sulphate during the first stage were respectively 3.86 x 10-2, 3.01 x 10-2, 4.75 x 10-2 and 2.13 x 10-2d-1. During the second stage of the study the values maximum obtained were 1.28 x 10-2, 1.90 x 10-2, 2.90 x 10-2 and 3.22 x 10-2d-1, for COD total and soluble, TKN and sulphate respectively.

This study evaluated using the Schlieren effect in FIA systems as a new strategy to determine the amounts of sodium chloride, potassium chloride and glucose, each respectively in intravenous drugs. The proposed methodology was based on the difference between the refractive indices of sample zones and the carrier stream. With this perspective, photometric detection was used based on an LED and a phototransistor to investigate the different analytical profiles related to the Schlieren effect in low flow rate conditions. Adjustment studies of the parameters and flow settings (which were most suitable to exploit Schlieren profiles), were performed. The proposed methodology generates a large amount of chemical information and therefore requires the use of chemometric tools. Data evaluation was performed with the application of a partial least squares regression (PLS1), employing the standard solutions of each analyte to construct and validate the models. The models were then used to predict the content of each analyte in their real samples. The results demonstrated the predictive ability of the constructed PLS1 models, and the predicted concentration values were in agreement with the reference values, with 95% of confidence. The main advantages of using the Schlieren effect in the chemical analysis is that no reagent is employed, low volumes of samples are used and no expensive radiation detectors are used.

We developed in this study the total synthesis of new potential ligands and / or chiral organocatalysts to be initially used in the Morita- Baylis-Hillman reaction and / or in other enantioselective reactions. The preparation of four new chiral unpublished compounds (31, 32, 33, 34) derivatives of pyridine and of R-(+)-camphor (21a) were performed. The chiral aldol adducts (31 and 32) were obtained by the reaction between 21a and aldehyde 35 or 36 in god chemical yields (80%-85%).The synthesis of 31 was done in 86% of diastereoisomeric excess. The new diois 33 and 34 were prepared from diastereoselective reduction of the corresponding aldol of 31 and 32 in high yield (88-90%) and 33 was prepared in de=77%. Determination of were performed from hydrogen NMR studies. We also present here, a toughly studies from spectroscopic techniques of 1H and 13C NMR, including COSY H,H; HETCOR and NOESY. The preliminary evaluation of 31 as organocatalysts was investigated from the Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction between the methyl acrylate or acrylonitrile and p-nitrobenzaldehyde. This theory opens borders, for our group of researches, in the area of synthesis enantiosselective.

The scientific community has great interest in synthetic heterocyclic compounds because of the possibilities that these compounds contain several different biological properties. The structural changes in the imidazolidine ring may modify its chemical and physical properties, and produce biological effects with a variety of useful applications. The aim of this study was to obtain a series of hydantoins with biological activities, in which 16 derivatives synthesized. The compounds were obtained in three stages: first, we made the reaction of sodium cyanide, ammonium chloride and aromatic aldehydes in order to be replaced, followed by acid hydrolysis in order to create the Amino acids Derived of Glycine (Strecker synthesis). In the second stage, we made the reaction of the amino acids prepared with phenylisocyante and / or phenilisotiocianate followed by acid hydrolysis to form the imidazolidine derivatived and Thioimidazolidinics (HPA-03, HPA-04, HPA-05, HPA-08, HPA-09, HPA -10, 11- HPA, HPA-14). In the third and final stage, we made the reaction of the imidazolidine derivatives obtained with benzoyl chloride and / or 4-chloro benzoyl. We obtained the following compounds: IM-01, IM-02, IM-03, IM-04, IM-05, IM-06, MI-07 and MI-08. There was no any information in literature about these compounds. The structures of the synthesized compounds were characterized by the Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Hydrogen and Carbon. Two compounds were analyzed in the central nervous system. The compound 5 - (4-etilfenil)-3-phenylimidazolidine- 2 , 4-dione (HPA-10) did not present any action in the central nervous system, and the compound 5 - (4-isopropyl)-3-phenyl-imidazolidine- 2,4-dione (HPA- 14) presented some action in the central nervous system.

SrTiO3 is a compound with perovskite structure usually found with cubic phase. This works reports the synthesis of powders and thin films of the undoped and Nd3+ doped SrTiO3, replacing Ti4+ or Sr2+ with the stoichiometries SrTi1-xNdxO3 (x = 0.00; 0.01; 0.02; 0.04) and Sr0.99Nd0.01TiO3. The powders were synthesized by the polymeric precursor method. The thin films were prepared by chemical solution deposition (CSD) using the spin coating technique and by pulsed laser deposition (PLD), being deposited on LaAlO3 (100), MgO (100), SrTiO3 (100), Al2O3-R, and SiO2. The structural and optical properties of these materials were evaluated by infrared spectroscopy, UV-vis spectroscopy, photoluminescent emission, micro Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction (XRD) Rietveld refinement of the XRD patterns was realized for powder samples. Moreover the photocatalytic property was evaluated in the degradation of textile dyes. The coexistence of the cubic and tetragonal phases for SrTiO3 powders was confirmed after calcinations at 550 oC. For doped samples calcined at 700 oC, it was observed that the sites occupied by Nd3+ influenced in the amount of these phases, leading to a direct influence in the photoluminescent emission. Emission in the yellow region was observed, while temperature increase lead to a shift to the green region, with higher energy indicating that short range ordering occurred. Thin films deposited on LaAlO3 substrate showed high quality epitaxial growth by CSD and a very high quality by PLD. On MgO doping changed the film orientation. For deposition on Al2O3-R and SiO2, polycrystalline films were obtained. Photocatalytic degradation efficiency was similar in powders and undoped films, increasing for films doped with 4 % of Nd3+ when synthesis was done by PLD. Key words:

The social politics, throughout the years, veem in accordance with if modifying the adopted economic policies, being these politics mechanisms of reproduction of the work force. In this aspect, the intervention of the State goes in accordance with to present of differentiated form the conjuncture and the correlation of forces between the classrooms, form that, the more organized, more fortified they will become. From these relations where the State starts to intervened in the relations of the means of production and accumulation capital it, the third sector appears as half of mediation between the public and the private sector, occupying each time more spaces in such a way in the public sphere as in the private one. With the absence of the State in determined sectors of social order they emerge, in the third sector, the not Governmental Organizations ONGs supplying in many cases the paper of the State in the social relations. Leaving of this perspective, we search to understand this relation in the field of the health, specifically with women, cancer of mastectomizada breast and. Of the social point of view, we perceive that the cancer still is seen as an illness incurable what it unchains a series of negative feelings affecting its recovery. In this context, the civil society has formed nets in support to the health and solidarity the women with breast cancer. Through the action of the ONGs, in the most diverse areas, it is perceived mobilization, the motivation of volunteers next to these organizations, becoming basic in the support and the insertion of segments of the population estigmatizadas by the society.

Sucking on a slice of the surplus labor in the form of public funds, which provides the Modern State in his hands for administration of the "social evils" through social assistance is a constitutive feature in the capital system. But with the onset of another crisis in the capital in mid-1970 and its bearing to the days progress, the social assistance has been recruited as the policy of the Brazilian social protection for "confrontation" and to "eradicate" the ills. This data is supported, especially when viewed as a process of that budget policy. In this sense, the objective of our work is to consider what both sides of that excess spotlight on social welfare policy, which has relied primarily on the riddle of the personifications of capital worldwide. To this end, we chose a critical-bibliographic and documentary that favored a cut of between three years (2005-2007) and socio-territorial space of Paraíba, specifically, the state management. From the theoretical and methodological nature of critical-dialectic, and the contribution of technical and operational physical and digital documents, especially, the Comptroller General of the State (CGE) and Court of the State (ECA), on public finances, mentioned that the back of high budget social assistance via "security income and nutritional security", is the cornerstone to increased degree of human barbarity that we sociometabólico this model of production, given its uninterrupted movement of accumulation and expansion in any compliance.

To present research he/she has as objective central two important points: the first consists of analyzing the services rendered by ONGs that you/they act children and adolescents from João Pessoa PB close to. The other, in discovering how those services are financed. The sample was based in 41 ONGs. For collection of data we used to the semi-structured interview, containing plausible indicators as our study object. Most of the interviewees (the) he/she affirmed that the services presented by the organizations contribute to improve his/her public's life, because the children and adolescent are very poor. In agreement with the dialogue that we had with those interviewees, we noticed that they are the aware, that several actions of ONGs, are assistencialistas. For instance, donation of basic basket, supply of shelters, medicines, among other, whose inclination is of imediatismo. The actions of those ONGs are more assistencialistas than citizens, but they are significant, because they contribute in the a lot of children's formation and adolescents, in many cases forgotten by the State. In other words, the actions of those ONGs cannot include the all of the expressions of the social subject, as he/she "makes" the State through the public politics, whose perspective is the universalization of the social rights. Though, their rendered services have great social value. Among 41 researched ONGs, none is autonomous, in the sense of maintaining their actions with own incomes (sale of services and products, among other). All of ONGs receive some donation type, be of the State, or of the civil society. For a lot of ONGs that is the main financing source.

The Brazilian population has undergone significant demographic changes. In a capitalist society, which privileges the work to maintain socialization, if they stay out of the productive world people end up losing their references, consequently, their identity, and feel totally excluded, which creates the need for changes in social policies to promote and develop strategies for the elderly are encouraged to pursue activities that bring a new learning, enjoyment, quality of life and social integration. From this perspective, the objective of this study is to analyze how the activities of the Center for Artistic and Cultural Production of the Elderly (CPACPI) contribute to the inclusion in the prospect of professional training, income generation and socialization of older people met there. The research is characterized by being a case study descriptive and exploratory, had been set in the CPACPI (João Pessoa - PB), with the participation of 18 senior people, representing a total of 69% of the population that met both criteria established in the research. Qualitative data were collected from 2009 to 2011, through the instruments of research: indirect documentation, action research and form during the activities (weekly), and were subjected to content analysis technique. From the data collected and analyzed, significant visual facts were exposed to the construction of the corpus of documentary research. The results showed that the CPACPI, which has the intention to help the elderly at risk and social vulnerability, as is also a living space group, whose practices (activities) carried contribute in some way, a bias for inclusion in a perspective of socialization, qualification and income generation. In general, it was realized that seek, gain and maintain social interaction is a major factor in the aging process, and the question of learning, which may represent a new link, a new course in search of possibilities of valuing the individual and their social reintegration.

This dissertation talks about the practical experience with Obligatory Supervised Practice from the Social Service course at UFPB and its implications for the project Projeto Ético-Político do Serviço Social Brasileiro . Throughout the historical dialectical method it was able to go beyond the immediacy plan and understand, through experiencing, much more than the necessary parameters of this discipline. The subjects involved in this research were the field supervisors, academic supervisors, Social and Studies Practice laboratory s Coordinators and Social Service Regional Council s Representatives, the two last were responsible for this practical discipline coordination in the Social Service course at UFPB and for supervising the practices, respectively, and also students of the discipline Estágio Supervisionado II of the same course. Based on this important step for the construction of a good professional carrier taken as constituted and part of different complexes, therefore, as part and result of a long historical development, inherent to Social Service; Inserted in society taken as historical totality. Throughout the development of this research it was tried not to lose the focus on socio-historical changes and analyze the profession according to the development of the profession s dimension, focusing more on the professional building s dimension. From this comprehension we try to interpret the ideas that the researched subjects had about a groups of categories, which indicates knowledge and comprehension about the context in which the profession is inserted in the market, and also the conditions and rationality that this profession is submitted. All of these steps had as a parameter the project Projeto Ético-Político . It also compared the organizational aspects of the Supervised Practice from UFPB to the existent curriculum guidelines and normalizations. Through this experience much was seen about the advances of supervised practice in the course of Social Service at UFPB, and also check if the Project Projeto Ético-Político do Serviço Social Brasileiro is happening well. Another perspective enabled us to find the functionality of the supervised practice at the researched university, and it does not comply with the recommendations presented in the National Supervised Practice Politics and in the Curriculum Guidelines, resulting in fragility in the process of building this profession, and consequently in the project Projeto Ético-Político da Profissão .

To approach the subject Right Human and Policy in only a proposal is sufficiently pertinent ahead of the related problems the violence that if finds gift in the Brazilian society in this beginning of century. Thus, one searchs with this research to verify as the official futures of Military Police of the Paraíba perceive the Human Rights and its applicability in its práxis daily. The methodology this study uses a qualitative boarding and carrying through an analysis of content of the perceptions of the pupils of the Course of Formation of Officers of the Military Policy of the Paraíba on its formation in Human Rights and Citizenship, the conceptions that guide its daily one and the implications in practical its. It presents the evolution of the conceptions on the human rights throughout history. It analyzes the formation of the pupil to the light of estimated of the law and the too much aspects that turn on the subject, approaching as if of the a construction of knowing them and of the abilities of the military policeman in human rights and as these must be applied to take care of to the necessities of the society. We conclude that the necessity of a permanent process of formation of the policeman exists, where theoretical and methodological references permanently are evaluated and reconstructed, therefore only one well sedimented theoretical recital is not enough, is necessary that the professionals of the security publish, either Militate Policy, Civilian or Federal lives deeply moments of reflection on its practical formation and its.

Discussions about the racial question in Brazilhave become more polemic after two universities of Rio de Janeiro had implemented social and racial quotas in 2003. Afterwards, in several universities there was in increase of census to identify the race/color if students, with the aim of knowing how racial segments are represented at universities. In this context, the goal of our study is to draw a racial portrait of Paraíba Federal university s graduate students in 2003 and to find out what is UFPB s color . The data, coming from a secondary source namely PGR (graduation s Pró-reitoria), has been analyzed to find out how many black, mixed, yellow and Indians exist at the university and in each graduation. As theoretical background, it has been assumed there is on racial democracy in Brazil. Results show that, in 2003, of the 21.283 graduation students, 40.3% were white, 2.9% black, 2.4% yellow, 20.5% mixed, 1% indian and 32.9% did not answer. Management was the graduation with more white students, while pedagogy was the graduation with more black and yellow students (41 e 44 respectively). Furthermore, the psychology and agro-industry graduations had no black students, while the Portuguese/English graduation ha only one white student. It has also been observed an under-representation of black students in the graduation, which implies a disparity between the number of white and non-white students. As observed in other universities with similar results, such factors as wrong income distribution, educational inequality and absence of a democratic process to access higher education might influence the under-representation of black students in graduations. Our conclusion is that UFPB s colour in white.

This investigation concerns the Urban Projovem evaluation acoording to its users in João Pessoa/PB from the perspective of (Un)Social Protection of Youth. The construction of this object is the result of a legitimate concern about the current social indicators that characterize the reality of many people young. This study comes from the understanding of youth as a social category historically determined. The concept involves analyzing the young people of contemporary Brazil and see them the features of a capitalist society marked by the contradictory relations of social production and reproduction. By virtue of a social exclusion and unequal dynamic, the youth becomes a victim of poverty, violence, structural unemployment, the destruction of social rights and a series of developments arising from changes occurring in the order of capital and the world of work stressing, thus, the process of social unprotection of most, youth included. To conduct this research process it was based on the following analysis categories: contemporary societal transformations, Youth, Social Protection/unprotection, Evaluation of Social Programs. Adopting the perspective of social program evaluation involves pursuing a research methodology that makes use of a critical reading of reality in order to articulate the micro and macro elements that pervade and set social policies in contemporary times, especially in dealing with issues that involve their youth. This is an applied social research among 39 Urban Projovem users from the center RaimundoNonato, located in the community Gervasio Mayan, in the city of Joao Pessoa / PB. As a methodological tool we used the System of Indicators for the Evaluation of Social Programs (SIAPS) through three social indicators: accessibility, quality and effectiveness of Urban Projovem. About the access to the program, it was found that the young people interviewed did not present the difficulties, although the official media to publicize the program could not directly reach the youth segment that information obtained through the community. In the evaluation of Urban Projovem users , it was presented the quality in the provision of services offered and a significant percentage had no problems with the program. Another indicator that pointed to the quality program related to the fact that more than 80% have assigned or great or good concept. With regard to the social indicator of effectiveness this study confirms that the majority of the young people indicated the effectiveness of the program from the following aspects: meeting the needs (vocational and educational), satisfaction with the actions taken by the program, especially subjective aspects and indications of changes in life after attending the program. There is, however, the fragility of the Program with respect to the size of the "Citizen Participation", because it is a secondary aspect by the young during this investigative study. In terms conclusive, attests to the effectiveness of Urban Projovem, according to its users in the city of João Pessoa / PB. However, given the complexity that shapes the youth reality in the current context of the Capital, which have been diversified the emergence of new social demands, stands as a major political challenge to service these needs by the current Social Protection System in Brazil, and in a particular way, under the Youth Public Policies in the construction process in a macro context where youth in Brazil still experiences a lack of social protection.

The Local Development Integrated and Sustainable - DLIS represented in the 1990s in Brazil, a strategic investment in the design and operation of public policies to combat poverty and social exclusion, sought to promote involvement and participation of civil society, building partnerships, establishing a vision of development more inclusive and integrated, surveillance and social control in the process of setting priorities in allocation of public resources in order to initiate a nationwide process of development more sustainable. This study focused on the theoretical debate, historical facts and conceptual categories relevant to understanding the new meaning that space takes place before an international context of economic globalization of capital and strong influence of neoliberalism in the planning of public policies of the Brazilian state. We attempted to ascertain the perceptions of implementing agents (governmental and non governmental organizations) the methodological strategy concerned about the efficiency of the process of community organization through the political role of civil society in local space. This was an analytical research of a qualitative approach, carried out through field study. As procedures, cite the literature, analysis of official documents, specific legislation. As a tool for data collection was used semi-structured interviews, participant observation and oral history. The interviews were conducted between November 2005 and January 2006, together with research subjects in the municipalities of Pedro Régis (forest area) and Nova Olinda (interior). The sample (n = 14) was intentional because it encompassed only professionals who have direct or indirect link with the municipalities that joined the expansion of the Active Community Program, the state of Paraíba. It was concluded that there was a dissociation between the principles and objectives of the strategy of the DLIS government with the intention of effecting an articulated process and sustainable development, which is useful in principle the rationalization of public resources and strengthening of visions of hegemonic power which showed a fragmented conception of development.

The objective of this study is to examine in the Vocational training, clashes between the goals ethical-political of profession and determinations of the labor market during the supervised training in Social Work, session 2010.1 UFPB. This theoretical work valid in critical-dialectical perspective methodology, consist in investigation in 06 institutions, where were interviewed the respective 06 social workers supervisor training field, and 12 students trainees, whose testimonials were confronted face of adversity working conditions, and elements that make it difficult the materialization of professional project. The quantitative and qualitative research resulted in the identification of the single side of the technical-operational dimension negatively influences in conducting the activities of the trainees, despite the bureaucratization of the activities, most reveals not find able for labor market stage due to the fact limited to only one field. For the professional field supervisors, the project viability ethical-political direction depends on a critical, but still understands as their professional role assignments made by the institution, which signal an exacerbation of technical efficiency, required by the rationalization of work. These data demonstrate one of the biggest challenges of professional training is realize overcoming these weaknesses from stage, it has direct results on professional performance spaces developed in occupational areas outlined by the labor market.

This dissertation deals with the contemporary intricacies infers the processing and handling of ecological harvesting of Pickers Seafood by the cities of Bayeux, and João Pessoa and Cabedelo in Paraiba depending on the environment where shellfish grow. This study was undertaken to analyze the relationship of socio-ecological process and organization of work that occur in the pick up process and marketing of shellfish seafood by the riverside communities of the estuary of River Paraíba. Among the qualitative methods include: life history, free interviews, semi-structured, guided tours and direct observation, the data were analyzed by interpreting the speech of the interviewees, based on the model of the integration of the various individual skills. The knowledge that these women have about the distribution of resources and its ecology, and environmental perception, constitutes a valuable tool in that it is enough to be incorporated in both plans of socio-economic studies and in management, conservation and sustainable use of local fauna.

The present study treats of the analysis of like the social workers of CEHAP and PMJP they understand and they execute the process of evaluation of habitational social projects. It is a research that privileges a quanti-qualitative dimension, while methodological procedure of analysis. The collection of data was accomplished through the interview techniques and, that was guided by an interview route previously structured, besides the observation assistemática. It is approached relative subjects to the home as human need, I dream and merchandise. I was discussed the development of the Habitational Politics in Brazil and in Paraíba, as well as the insert of the Social Service in the planning and execution of social projects in the sphere of the urban politics and, finally, the evaluation of habitational social projects. The analysis of the research reinforces and it proves the hypothesis, that was centered in the implementação of the residual evaluation, concerned in confronting the results merely by analysis of quantitative data, without happening any feedback form to the social project, being limited to the accomplishment of the procedures of formal and informal registration, of evaluation meetings, with application of semi-structured questionnaires, aiming at the collection of quantitative and qualitative data, with emission of monthly accompaniment reports. However, every east arcabouço was limited to the plan of the analysis of the professional category, forgetting about your largest effect, the one of the public managers' feedback political decisions.

This article presents a brief review of the history of Aids epidemic, analyzing tendencies, stigma, prejudice, factors of social, economic and cultural vulnerability, gender relations and points out the answers to that disease given by Brazilian social movements and government of Brazil. In the area of sexuality and the safe sexual practice, we identify some difficulties that women experience: the negotiation about the condom use, lack of autonomy and empowerment, gender violence and lack of awareness about the risk of women become infected by HIV. All this strengthened by a sexist culture that has denied women s right to experience their sexuality in a free way, making them increasingly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.

This study intends to analyze the activity of the Conselhos Tutelares (Tutelary Councils) in João Pessoa, PB, with focus on the defense of the right to familiar and communitarian acquaintanceship - which lies in the primary rights for children and adolescents in the Federal Constitution of Brazil (1988) and also in the Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (Statute for Children and Adolescents). Essentially based on qualitative data (quantitative data appear just to enlighten the analysis), the research outlines the study of cases which can be seen by a dialectic method and which elected as categories the democratic participation (giving emphasis to Tutelary Councils as places for its effectuation), the communitarian and familiar acquaintanceship as a right for children and adolescents (focusing on its characteristics nowadays and its role as a social protection agent). The research has as subject all the Tutelary Councils in João Pessoa, PB. The statistics were collected by means of questions, semi-structured interviews and documental analysis (legal processes of 2009 in which we found some material about the right to communitarian and familiar acquaintanceship); besides, the analysis of contents was used during the interpretation of the mentioned data. In synthesis, the results appoints that children and adolescents remain being taken from their families to tutelary councils due to their poverty, in spite of its legal prohibition fact related to the ineffectiveness of the public and social politics even the Brazilian Federal Law 12.010/09 stating, in general, some kind of warning about the deliberate use of institutional reception. By the way, it has been seen that Tutelary Councils act in an individualized way, privileging its own assistential part in order to elaborating attendances and referrals instead of trying to solve problems in the public environment. This situation contributes (between other eventual problems) to its own fragility as mechanism to assure children and adolescents rights, although it has potential to such an act.

This study analyzes improvements and limitations in the implementation and effectuation of the policy for tackling gender-based violence, and in assistance services for women in the city of João Pessoa/PB, results of theoretical and empirical reflections from the Social Service Masters Course of Federal University of Paraíba. From a critical-analytical perspective, we could understand the inequalities and asymmetries between men and women, which are results of a society established by a patriarchal logic. We learned that the violence against women is intrinsic to this model of organization and is not restricted to the interpersonal relations only, but also underlies the gender relations. This complex issue is a political and social matter, making the state intervention mandatory. This is a qualitative-quantitative research. The data collection method consisted of interviews followed by a content analysis of the respondents answers, based on the theoretical framework guiding this study. The universe of this research was comprised of 11 women users of the Centro de Referência da Mulher Ednalva Bezerra, a city public agency. The research was carried out from November 2009 to February 2010. The discussion and analysis presented corroborate the guiding questions of this research. We found that the gender-based violence becomes more complex and ambiguous within an affective relationship, making difficult for the victims to lodge a complaint. The approval of the Maria da Penha Law, which curbs gender-based violence in its domestic and family forms, does not translate into effectuation of the assistance services to which the law refers. The impunity for perpetrators also contributes to the reproduction and permanence of this phenomenon. Also, the absent, insufficient, and non-prioritized assistance services from the state reveal its position over the issue, defending class interests and the patriarchal logic. Finally, we learned that the achievements of women are uncontested, with profound changes in society; however, the rights and the broadening of citizenship for women are limited by the landmarks of the capitalist society, which is permeated by the patriarchal logic of gender.