Etnografia sobre as mulheres privadas de liberdade, suas produções de vida e sexualidades: um estudo na Penitenciária Juiz de Fora I

Abstract

This study, of a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory nature, analysed narratives from women deprived of liberty, located at the Juiz de Fora I Penitentiary, about their affective-sexual trajectories from their first sexual intercourse to the current moment when they are in prison, considering their practices and social representations relating to sexuality, contraception, reproduction and STI/HIV/Aids prevention. Interviews were used as a data colletion instrument, with a semi-structured scrip, with 12 women deprived of liberty. This the interviews were carried out by the researcher herself, inside the Juiz de Fora I Penitentiary and lasted an average of one and a half hours. The sample was intentional, based on previously established quotas and using the ‘snowball’ method. The quotas were established to guarantee the greatest range of characteristics of these women in terms of diversity, considering the criteria of age, race/color and legal status(situation of the judiical process at the time of the interview that may place it as provisional,i.e., still awaiting a court sentence or with a sentence under the semi-open or closed regime). As an auxiliary instrument in data collection, a field diary was made of the entire fieldwork process, from entry into the field to the challenging moments in carrying out each interview. A reflective thematic analysis of the collected material was carried out, exploring aspects relating to family, social and emotional-sexual experiences outside and within the prision context.The results reveal that the majority of interviewees claim to have already had some type of sexual contact with women in freedom and that, in prison, such experiences are often redesigned with multiple meanings. This investigation was approved by the Ethics Comittee in Research with Human Beings of UFJF(CEP/ UFJF) under opinion n° 5.823.055. And it also obtained approval by the Secretariat of Justice an Prison System throught the SEI process 145.010136757/2022-25.