O sistema heteropatriarcal-racista-capitalista : uma análise dos desafios da mulher negra e mãe no sistema prisional

Abstract

The condition of women, specifically black women and mothers who are inserted in the prison system, portrays how the prison system, through the capitalist State, carries out its racist and heteropatriarchal role. The objective of this study is to analyze the configurations of the Brazilian female prison system and the challenges faced by black women and mothers. As a methodology, an exploratory and descriptive research was chosen based on bibliographic and documentary analyzes as the main methodological one, depending on the object of analysis, the quantitative-qualitative approach was prioritized due to the need to integrate different analytical perspectives that contribute to an understanding broad and detailed understanding of the object of study. Annual data from reports produced by the National Penitentiary Information Survey (INFOPEN) were analyzed, as well as data provided by the Brazilian Public Security Yearbook. Therefore, we established the specific goals of this study: to examine the socio-historical configurations of the female prison system in the Brazilian context, to understand the specific laws aimed at women and mothers in the prison system, and finally, to expose the social specificities that affect black women in the system. prison. In this sense, it is concluded that black women still suffer from invisibility and misogyny, and the rights of these women, mothers who are inserted in the prison system, continue to be outdated, and given the narratives of these women prisoners, this vulnerability that they are subjected to is reaffirmed. , through machismo, poverty, abusive relationships and racism.