Crimes cometidos por mulheres brasileiras: uma análise sobre enunciados de gênero

Abstract

News reporting on the participation of women in crimes become increasingly common in the Brazilian media. Attention to this, this article analyzes statements that took place between the lines of discourses present in the article published in the year 1995 in Brazil. This analysis found a main contribution in the field of gender studies, more specifically in authors who make a critical analysis on the notions of gender identities. The methodology used was the documentary analysis, resorting to the problematization of the statements present in a report published in Veja magazine. As a result, a stereotyped account of women involved in crime situations has been found, which are commonly characterized in the media from notions of victimization, infantilization, passion, imbalance and abnormality. At the end of the course of research, the importance of problematizing the notion of gender is evident in order to avoid a simplistic reading that reproduces moral and conservative evaluations of the modes of existence.