Courageous and warriors: gender, social class and family in stories of women in prison

• Autor(a) principal: Lago, Natália Bouças do
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Insurgência
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/insurgencia/article/view/19405
• topic: Mulheres. Prisão. Gênero. Classe. Família; Women. Prison. Gender. Social class. Family.

In this article, I discuss the articulations between gender,class and family in the narratives of two women deprived of their liberty. The information presented are the result of an ethnographic research that involved dialogues with women prisoners in a prison located at São Paulo, Brazil. The two characters, Cris and Mariana, narrate their lives in connection with their respective husbands and also mobilize otherrelationships that do not fade with the prison. Mariana grants to prison the organization of her life and of her family relations. Cris speaks about her work relations to explain her deprivation of liberty and highlights the aspects that made up her normal life outside prison. Gender and class seem to be central markers for understanding the narratives of these women and their relationships through imprisonment.