O cárcere e o relato de si: abjeção e normas regulatórias na experiência de mulheres sobreviventes ao centro de reeducação feminino

Abstract

In this work, we investigate how relationships are woven between regulatory norms, intersectional systems of inequalities, and abjection as verbalized by our interlocutors in their self-reports. By investigating the experience of women who have been incarcerated, selfreports are the materialization of ethical violence – which can be subjective – in the lives of the research interlocutors. This form of violence is affected by regulatory norms, intersectionality and abjection - which are configured as moral grammars that are mobilized to organize intelligibility before and within prison. Through this problem, we seek to understand the fabric of the relationship between regulatory norms, intersectional systems of inequalities and abjection through self-reports of women who have been inmates at the Women's Reeducation Center (Belém-PA). To this end, we propose to investigate whether or in what way the movement of self-reporting by the women concerned is marked by a denial of humanity, the imposition of gendered norms and practices that traverse social markers of differences (gender, race, class and sexuality), or even their questioning. Methodologically, the central concepts that animate the work are used as analytical categories, and they have proven fruitful in the analysis. Among the results, we have the imposition of the scene of interpellation that deals with the moment of arrest as the first self-report of the interlocutors, the “woman not to be” in the understanding of how the regulatory norms of gender configure that women are incarcerated women, the intersection that unfolds in the “patent” of wealth and the privileges that intertwine with it; operating in intersectional systems and in abjection we have the reality of women who were incarcerated due to their homeless condition, to these, abjection challenges them in such a way that they are denied the status of subject, framed as dirty, and even in intersectional systems of inequalities they reflect the other side of the “patent”, devoid of respect among incarcerated women.