Mulheres aprisionadas: rediscutindo invisibilidades

Abstract

Common sense, in the gender perspective, advocates female criminality as one more situation where the patriarchal relations prevail. Thus, women who are serving sentences would involve themselves in crime, as of their affective relationships with one or more male figures. In a research conducted in a Women’s Prison in Rio Grande do Sul, the data collection brought information that contradict this idea. What we intend with this study is a new look at the subject, by questioning: to think that women enter the criminality because of a male figure, wouldn’t it be one more form of invisibility?