Systems theory luhmananna applied to the analysis of women's specialized prosecutors

Abstract

This article aims to analyse the brazillian institutional aparatus aimed towards combating gender violence and inequality through the complex realism perspective, or, more specifically, by Niklas Luhmann’s social systems’ theory, in what relates to the connection between its comprehension of operatively closed autopoietic systems, that articulate recursivity, circularity, self-reference, and law, as well as the structural couplings perpetrated by this system and represented by governmental agencies – among them, the Public Prosecution Offices specialized in gender violence. As such, the article aims towards contemplating the necessary contextualization of the imperatives that led to the creation of organs meant to fight gender discrimination and the violence generated by it in Brazil.