“Disse ser seu único arrependimento apenas não ter conseguido assassinar Constância”: perspectivas acerca de relações de gênero, interseccionalidade e crime em Pelotas (1861 -1888)

Abstract

The present master's research presents a qualitative analysis about crimes involving women from the reading of four documents that show cases that occurred in the city of Pelotas and date between 1861 and 1887. committed in justification of love, jealousy and mainly caused by the feeling of possession between sex-affective partners or even while they are still suitors, all crimes portrayed in criminal proceedings from the Public Archives of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (APERS). Among the four women participating in the cases and protagonists of this research, there are three victims and one defendant, all black and poor, knowledgeable about the context of slavery and who made it possible to perceive specific experiences for black women as well as the singularities of their cases, since they will be cases fire, attempted murder and homicide. In addition to issues related to gender relations, since the machismo experienced by them in the midst of the crimes and also during the trial is visible but aspects of intersectionality and social vulnerability will also be highlighted from the social context in which these women were inserted. The analysis of the sources made it possible to perceive particularities of female experiences, part of the struggle of these women for their subsistence, in addition to the present division of imposed sexual roles and a Criminal Code that privileged male subjects.