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PROFESSIONALISM, GENDERIZATION AND RACIALIZATION IN LEGAL ACADEMY IN BRAZIL

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Author(s):
Maria da Gloria Bonelli [1]
Total Authors: 1
Affiliation:
[1] Universidade Federal de São Carlos - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 1
Document type: Journal article
Source: Revista Direito GV; v. 17, n. 2 2021-10-25.
Abstract

Abstract The paper focuses on the Brazilian legal academy, and analyses how the process of genderization and racialization produces itself with the formation of the subjects, and the opportunities and constraints for their careers. The articulation of these social markers results in privileges and obstacles unevenly distributed between White men, White women, Black men, Black women. It discusses the research result in dialogue with studies on gender inequalities in legal academy in several countries, and the article suggests to approach the process in the perspective of differences. It points that such gradient of race and gender intersection also produces essencialism by fixing identities among the professoriate. The research hypothesis is that interviewers suture professionalism and difference as the result of experiences that constituted them as professionals, situated in genderization and racialization process that demand emotional work. The subjects handle the meanings of racial attribution and gender codes combining them in diverse and changeable ways, that do not turn into stable and essencialized identities. The fieldwork gathered quantitative data from the 2015 National Census of Higher Education, from the 2017 RAIS database on workforce and seventy qualitative interviews with women and men legal academics, from seven diversified Law schools. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 16/08850-1 - De-centering legal academy in Brazil: Women faculty and difference in Brazilian Law schools.
Grantee:Maria da Gloria Bonelli
Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants