edição feminista, afetiva e sustentável
English version of Criminologia Feminista: Novos Paradigmas (2a. ed.), the Portuguese original edition, published in Brazil by Editora Saraiva Educação S.A. (São Paulo).
“In the Brazilian Feminist Criminology: new paradigms, my task is to bring elements that are capable of contributing to the fabric of a feminist criminology… I consider that, with regard to criminology, assuming it implies the subversion of the way of producing knowledge, hitherto given under epistemological parameters distant from the experiences of women and understanding the sex-gender system. I question the instrumentality of the concept of social control in criminology from the dichotomy between formal and informal, which I situate at the heart of discussions, also carried out by feminist theory, regarding the public and private sphere. I take a stand in relation to law, understanding it as a strategically valuable field of disputes for women, in order, as a result, to address the relationship between women and criminal law and, I propose the construction of a minimum criminal law program based on fundamental rights exclusive to women in two specific situations: respect for reproductive rights and gender violence. I understand that the perverse historical, social, cultural, and family character of gender violence justifies the right to protection against this type of violation to be a fundamental right exclusive to women, in the same sense as the right to self-determination, regarding abortion. And, it is from this point of view that it seems, to me, that it must be confined to the limits of action of the criminal law concerning women. Treating the feminist discourse that resorts to criminal law, based on the concrete violence historically experienced by women, is an unjustifiable and unjustified label. It is both possible and necessary that issues involving women, whether as victims, or as defendants or convicts, need to be part of a program built within the framework of a minimum criminal law.”
Soraia da Rosa Mendes
2022
232 pages
ISBN 978-65-84685-13-0
Dimensions 6.14 x 0.53 x 9.21 inches
Translated by Bibiana de Quadros | Cover and design by Fabricando Ideias Design Editorial
Chapter 1
Criminologies
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1.1 A medieval criminology?
1.2 The criminological thought illustrated
1.3 The birth of modern criminology
1.3.1 The etiological paradigm
1.3.2 Women in the etiological paradigm
1.4 The labeling approach and symbolic interactionism
1.5 Critical criminology
1.5.1. The fundamental elements of critical criminological thinking
1.5.2. Women in the paradigm of social reaction
1.5.3. The Limits of Critical Criminology
Chapter 2
Feminist Epistemology
2.1 A typology of feminist epistemologies
2.1.1. Feminist Empiricism
2.1.2. The feminist standpoint
2.1.3. Postmodern feminism
2.2 For an intersectional feminist legal epistemology
2.3 Situated knowledge and the critique of objectivity
2.4 The epistemic revolution of the gender category
2.4.1. Gender or Patriarchy?
2.4.2. Criticism of the concept of gender
2.5 The feminist criticism of feminism
2.6 Feminism as a critical feminist theory
Chapter 3
Scenes from the historical experience of women facing punitive power
3.1 Scenes from the construction of the custody project during the medieval period
3.2 Custody speeches
3.2.1. The theological discourse
3.2.2. The medical discourse
3.2.3. The legal discourse
3.3 The medieval heritage
3.3.1. Women and prison
3.3.2. Scenes from Brazil
Chapter 4
Weaving a Feminist Criminology
4.1 The feminist paradigm as a starting point
4.2 Discussing social control
4.3 The law as a field of dispute
4.4 Criminal law and women
4.5 The minimum criminal law model
4.6 Fundamental rights of women as limits on criminal law (or by a minimum criminal law program for women)
4.6.1. The right to self-determination
4.6.2. The right to protection
4.6.2.1. Maria da Penha Law, power and submission
4.6.2.2. Femicide and crime of passion
4.6.2.3. Gender violence and the right to protection
Final Remarks
References
