Na retina das agentes penitenciárias, os reflexos do espelho: histórias da revista íntima na Penitenciária do Serrotão (2009-2014).

Abstract

This master’s dissertation aims to analyze the intimate search as a pedagogization of the female body in Serrotão Penitentiary, located in the city of Campina Grande-PB, in the period from 2009 to 2014. The inspection consisted of the undressing of the visitors, following a ritual that contemplated squats above a mirror as a means to constitute evidence that they were or not, carrying the mentioned materials. The research investigated the reasons why the body search was destined exclusively to the female body with the preservation of the male.This procedure was instituted in brasilian prison units in order to ensure that narcotic substances, cell phone appliances, weapons and other forbidden objects entered those spaces hidden in the female bodies of visitors. As a penitentiary agent who has experienced in loco, I take Ego-history and Oral History as a methodology. The first is to analyze the memories that constituted me as a subject, the second, in the intention of listening, telling and analyzing the stories woven from the memories of the other penitentiary agents, as well as documentary sources. For this, I follow in the wake of Foucault discussing the concepts of power, docile bodies and discipline, Butler starting from gender, Pesavento sensibilities, as well as Certeau with place practiced tactics and strategies, among other authors and theorists. In addition, I present daily activities of visiting days and their socibilities, perceiving how masculinities still handle the prison environment, evidencing that in spite of scape and resistences the female body is still incarcerated.