Gênero, cárcere e família: Estudo etnográfico sobre a experiência das mulheres no tráfico de drogas.

Abstract

This study addresses the female criminality with emphasis on the drug dealing. This research is important due to the relations of power which implicates the women who join the drug dealing, by the inexistence of this kind of work, in the municipality of Bagé. Through the data, it can be seen an increase of the female criminality and that the participation of women in drug dealing is quite higher than the male participation is. The perspective of gender needs to be faced as one of the center lines that constitute the social relations. The gender is a constituent of social relations based in the differences realized between genders and it is a primary way of giving a meaning to the relations of power. The importance of social relations along with the family structures rises when the maintenance is necessary to the organization through the exercise of activities, an exercise that needs representatives, in other words, the determination and the taking roles. This study, only purposes to offer a contribution to the understanding of the increasing involvement of women in the drug dealing. Ethnography Study. Bourdieu (1999, 2006 e 2007), Foucault (1997, 2002, 2007 e 2011), Butler (2003, 2005 e 2007) and Lemgruber (1993 e 2001) are referred as theoretical.