Making law, making woman: gender and family in the production of statutes in Brazilian National Congress

• Grant number: 17/10657-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: September 15, 2017
• End date: March 14, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Urban Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Igor José de Renó Machado
• Grantee: Bruna Potechi
• Supervisor: Maria Antónia Pereira de Resende Pedroso de Lima
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA), Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/14036-7 - The persons of legislation: an ethnography of documents in the Brazilian legislative, BP.DR

Abstract

This Research Project propose an Exchange in Lisbon, Portugal, for six months under supervision of Professor Dr. Antónia Pedroso de Lima, specialist on gender and family studies, in contexts of exercise of power. The exchange will be at CRIA - Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, part of ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. The main aim of this exchange is to expand my thinking and to improve my analysis on the relation between women and family in the making of law in Brazilian National Congress. My research, for instance, discuss how power spheres, like the National Congress, feminize woman deputies. In this context female politicians are given a marginalized space inside the Brazilian Congress which limits their influence over the making of law. I intend to improve these analyses showing the paradox on the presumed emancipation of the legal category of "women" from a notion of family in Brazilian law by exploring relations inside Congress that "domesticate" woman as politicians. (AU)