Mulheres, corpos e a estética da existência: um estudo de caso em instituição prisional sobre mulheres encarceradas por envolvimento com o tráfico de drogas

Abstract

In this research, the Brazilian prison system has been historically situated as a background to the discussion about power dispute, in a perspective that understand prison as a disciplinary dispositive in relation to criminality, the drug dealing and women imprisonment. It deal with the social construction of female subject, from the analysis of genders category, as well as female criminality while possibility of agency compared to subalternity. In addition, It have traced a historical route that tried to perceive women imprisonment process and the power games that produces the bodies and behaviors that will be punished. Gender issues related to body and the historical marks that allowed women to take possession of themselves was analyzed starting from the hypothesis that women have autonomy and look for living conditions through agency of their bodies and lives. In this way, this research was developed with women arrested because of drug dealing, especially those one that used their bodies to bring drugs inside prison. Starting from the Foucault's Discourse Analysis, it have identified the conditions of abjection of their bodies, analyses practices of care the self, describe gender statements and understand the circumstances of involvement of these women with crime. As database production techniques, exploration interviews, documental analysis, field diary were used. The researcher, psychologist of the prison that the research was made, observed this phenom and its nuances from the field immersion, of ethnographic inspiration. This research concluded that this phenom, the body use to commit crimes, revealed itself from the speech of each women that contributed with this inquiry, containing nuances that demarcate positions of abjection and self-agency in practices of existence anchored in lived experiences and the marks that they bring on their bodies.