Practices and Representations of Female Behaviour. Criminal Cases of Seduction and Abduction (Assis/Sao Paulo – 1950/1969)

• Autor(a) principal: DAVID, Priscila
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Patrimônio e Memória
• Texto Completo: http://pem.assis.unesp.br/index.php/pem/article/view/142
• topic: Popular youths. Feminine skills. Social representations. Crimes against customs. Assis. 1950-1969.; Jovens populares. Práticas femininas. Representações sociais. Crimes.

This study discusses questions relating to the practices of young women from the lower classes committed contrary to social custom. They were involved in offences involving seduction and abduction, which occurred in the City of Assis between 1950 and 1969. The study examines the Judiciary Committee’s representations concerning their conduct. A majority of the victims were in the labor market and had a low supervision of their social practices. For this reason, members of the Judiciary Committee, who maintained traditional views on femininity, condemned their behaviour and considered it at odds with basic morality and convention. Belonging to a specific social group, these young women were not only victims of crimes against their person, but they were also victims of discrimination by a sexist and conservative society.