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| Author(s): |
Rafael De Tilio
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2009-08-07 |
| Examining board members: |
Regina Helena Lima Caldana;
Maria Aparecida Junqueira Veiga Gaeta;
Tatiana Savoia Landini;
Geraldo Romanelli;
Elisabeth Meloni Vieira
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| Advisor: | Regina Helena Lima Caldana |
| Abstract | |
This research aimed to identify, organize and understand which were the gender strategies and representations of sexuality identified in sexual crime charges in Ribeirão Pretos judicial district between the 1870s and 1970s. In order to understand them, themes that informed about gender normative values and ideals (which can be condensed into the adult heterosexuality in marriage) were presented. A database of 101 documents (police inquiries and sexual crime suits) between 1871 and 1941 (1890 Brazilian Penal Code) were compared to 220 documents between 1942 and 1979 (1940 Brazilian Penal Code), both belonging to the 1st, 2nd and 4th Judicial Offices under responsibility of the Arquivo Público e Histórico de Ribeirão Preto. These two sets of documents were compared in order to characterize: (1) the cases of the inquiries and suits, (2) the involved ones (victim and defendant), (3) their gender strategies and representations of sexuality. For the analysis, simple calculation of frequency in (1) and (2), and search for thematic regularities in (3) were carried out. The research argument is that, although the strategies, the involved persons and the cases characterizations have changed; the representations of sexuality continued emphasizing traditional aspects of gender relations the same ones demanded by the legal codex. Therefore, even that, in the 1940s, the aim of the charges changed from solving the complaint through marriage between defendant and victim (consented loss of virginity) to criminal punishment (as a reparation to the non consented sexual intercourse), the victimized ones continued empathizing their sexual and moral honesty (modesty, shyness etc.), and the defendants continued saying that the inquiries and suits were wrong, and they were unfairly accused (they had a job, were respectful and presented good behavior, or a mental disorder). (AU) | |