Amor e maternidade no cárcere : mulheres que têm filhos com homens encarcerados

• Autor(a) principal: Lermen, Helena Salgueiro
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_RS
• Texto Completo: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/908
• topic: PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL; PSICOLOGIA DA MULHER; PRISÕES; PRISÃO - ASPECTOS SOCIAIS; RELAÇÕES DE GÊNERO; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The main objective of this dissertation is to understand, from the point of view of women, the meaning of having a loving relationship and conceiving a child from an incarcerated man. We carried out semi-structured interviews at the prison called Presídio Central de Porto Alegre (PCPA) with women who have children with incarcerated partners in that prison. To analyze the data we used Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). This kind of discursive investigation focuses especially on social problems, explaining them by means of structure and social interaction. The dissertation is composed of two articles, both arising from empirical studies. In the first study, based on interviews with three women whose partners are serving time at PCPA, we sought to understand their motivations for maintaining this relationship, as well as to know the roles played and the violence they notice in prison. The analyzed data confirm the social expectation that women care for their partners. The sacrifice arising from the non-abandonment is followed by the desire to be rewarded by their partners after the latter's serving time. The submission of these women, who perceive themselves obliged to maintain their relationships, to visit, to provide their partners materially and emotionally and to endure the violence imposed by the prison is resignified from the leadership they assume. This role is expressed through their power of decision to go to the prison, take their children to the visits and provide inputs to their partners. The second article consists of interviews with two women whose lives are marked by great familiarity with prison and who became pregnant at PCPA when visiting their partners. In this study we sought to understand what meanings they attribute to conceiving their children in prison. Therefore, we investigated the participants' conceptions of maternity, paternity and family. In the analyzed data we see the appropriation of hegemonic models of maternity and paternity based on the ideal of a nuclear family. On the other hand, the non-normative character of their life stories marked by familiarity with the prison outlines other possible discourses that question this hegemonic model. Thus, we can see in the discourse of the participants several and contradictory references in their attempts to build places of mothers and fathers. Such a contradiction resulting from simultaneous movements of appropriation and resistance to normative discourses draws our attention to the dialectical process of subjective construction. In other words, these women signify parental roles from family/community and social/cultural references.