Trafficking of women in prisons entrances or security and gender devices in the production of “dangerous classes” [Tráfico de mulheres nas portarias das prisões ou dispositivos de segurança e gênero nos processos de produção das “classes perigosas”]

Cadernos Pagu
Volume 2017, Issue 51, 2017

Trafficking of women in prisons entrances or security and gender devices in the production of “dangerous classes” [Tráfico de mulheres nas portarias das prisões ou dispositivos de segurança e gênero nos processos de produção das “classes perigosas”] (Article) (Open Access)

Padovani N.C.*

^a Pesquisadora do Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero-Pagu/Unicamp, Campinas, SP, Brazil

Abstract

In this article, I argue that gender is a central technology by which prison is administered. Considering penitentiaries entrances as borders, as checkpoints, I make a connection between the act of crossing a prison entrance with the historiographies of national borders produced by “postcolonial” and transnational feminist literature. From this connection, the article follows an anecdotal tenor, wherewith I aim to demonstrate how feminist critiques focused on the notion of "trafficking of women", may contribute to the analysis of the security and gender devices articulation in the production of power-knowledge discourse on women's prisons. © 2018, Universidade Estadual de Campinas UNICAMP. All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

Feminisms Gender State Practices Security Device Prisons Borders

Index Keywords

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85040544075&doi=10.1590%2f18094449201700510003&partnerID=40&md5=95cb54998e5933b0013822dab2d141cf

DOI: 10.1590/18094449201700510003

ISSN: 01048333

Original Language: English; Portuguese