Women's Police Stations examines the changing and complex relationship between women and the state, and the construction of gendered citizenship. These are police stations run exclusively by police women for women with the authority to investigate crimes against women, such as domestic violence, assault, and rape. São Paulo was the home of the first such police station, and there are now more than 300 women's police stations throughout Brazil. Cecilia MacDowell Santos examines the importance of this phenomenon in book form for the first time, looking at the dynamics of the relationship between women and the state as a consequence of a political regime as well as other factors, and exploring the notion of gendered citizenship.
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"A unique opportunity to explore the relationship between feminist mobilization, the state, and constructions of violence against women."--Nancy Naples, University of California, Irvine
"An important and much-needed book about the evolving relation between Brazil's male-oriented justice system, feminist activism and ordinary citizens' understandings of gender and women's rights. Santos takes her readers inside the world of São Paulo's women's police stations, where female police officers with varying ideas about police work encounter a diverse citizenry that has suffered from sexual violence. This is a story about Brazil's experiment in democratization, as it works on the ground."--Edward Telles, University of California at Los Angeles
"The complex and contradictory evolution of gender politics in contemporary society is beautifully captured in Cecilia MacDowell Santos rich and compelling ethnographic observations of Brazil’s new “women’s police stations”. Santos’ analysis of the interplay of the state (including police women), civil society (most especially feminist NGOs) and individual women seeking justice is original, innovative and theoretically sophisticated. Analysts of gender, students of the state and activists alike will find her work insightful and illuminating." -- Peter Evans, Marjorie Meyer Eliaser Chair of International Studies, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley
"An important and much-needed book about the evolving relation between Brazil's male-oriented justice system, feminist activism and ordinary citizens' understandings of gender and women's rights. Santos takes her readers inside the world of São Paulo's women's police stations, where female police officers with varying ideas about police work encounter a diverse citizenry that has suffered from sexual violence. This is a story about Brazil's experiment in democratization, as it works on the ground."--Edward Telles, University of California at Los Angeles
"The complex and contradictory evolution of gender politics in contemporary society is beautifully captured in Cecilia MacDowell Santos rich and compelling ethnographic observations of Brazil’s new “women’s police stations”. Santos’ analysis of the interplay of the state (including police women), civil society (most especially feminist NGOs) and individual women seeking justice is original, innovative and theoretically sophisticated. Analysts of gender, students of the state and activists alike will find her work insightful and illuminating." -- Peter Evans, Marjorie Meyer Eliaser Chair of International Studies, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley
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Cecilia MacDowell Santos is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of San Francisco.
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In the late 1970s and mid-1980s, pressure from social movement actors, such as women's and feminist groups, forced the military regime, established by the 1964 military coup, to initiate a process of redemocratization in Brazil. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hegemonic feminist discourse, assédio sexual, para atendimento, violent sexual molestation, criminal small claims courts, police station specializing, regular police stations, most policewomen, policewomen working, specialized police stations, racial discrimination against women, police delegate, outro olhar, conjugal violence, other policewomen, actual bodily injury, alliances with feminists, illegal constraint, gendered citizenship, feminist politicization, female complainants, condiçao feminina, police clerk, violência contra, direitos humanos Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sao Paulo, Casa Eliane de Grammont, Serviço Técnico, Delegada Rosmary Corrêa, Brazilian Penal Code, Globo Repórter, Rede Globo, Direitos da Mulher, Heleieth Saffioti, Coletivo Feminista Sexualidade, Casa da Mulher, Conselho Nacional, Delegada Izilda Ferreira, Rio de Janeiro, Rosenete Campos, Commission Fighting Violence, Diário Popular, United States, Abertura Política, Aparecida Andrade, Doca Street, Maria Aparecida de Laia, Boletim de Ocorrência, Boletins de Ocorrência, Centro de Orientaçáo Jurídica New!
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In the late 1970s and mid-1980s, pressure from social movement actors, such as women's and feminist groups, forced the military regime, established by the 1964 military coup, to initiate a process of redemocratization in Brazil. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hegemonic feminist discourse, assédio sexual, para atendimento, violent sexual molestation, criminal small claims courts, police station specializing, regular police stations, most policewomen, policewomen working, specialized police stations, racial discrimination against women, police delegate, outro olhar, conjugal violence, other policewomen, actual bodily injury, alliances with feminists, illegal constraint, gendered citizenship, feminist politicization, female complainants, condiçao feminina, police clerk, violência contra, direitos humanos Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sao Paulo, Casa Eliane de Grammont, Serviço Técnico, Delegada Rosmary Corrêa, Brazilian Penal Code, Globo Repórter, Rede Globo, Direitos da Mulher, Heleieth Saffioti, Coletivo Feminista Sexualidade, Casa da Mulher, Conselho Nacional, Delegada Izilda Ferreira, Rio de Janeiro, Rosenete Campos, Commission Fighting Violence, Diário Popular, United States, Abertura Política, Aparecida Andrade, Doca Street, Maria Aparecida de Laia, Boletim de Ocorrência, Boletins de Ocorrência, Centro de Orientaçáo Jurídica New!
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