Mulheres desvirginadas: o corpo feminino e a normatização social em discursos jurídicos em Campina Grande-PB (experiências em processos-crime de 1933 a 1954).

Abstract

This academic text aims to analyze the deflowering of criminal legal processes and seduction during the years 1933 to 1954 analyzing the discourses of justice and medicine as producers of a standard model from the female body. It also was to focus evaluate how a disciplinary social order was produced from the medical discourses on the female body in the late nineteenth century and its effects in the early twentieth century; discuss the legal discourse about honor and gender relations in the discourses present in criminal cases, questioning the female identities; register the clash between the legal discourse and cultural discourse in the construction of the cultural identity of the woman during the criminal legal processes, and analyze the discourses in criminal processes on the female body, reflecting a model of social regulation. For the construction of this dissertation it was used as methodology the discourse analysis perspective on these narratives in criminal processes. Thus, we cataloged four cases that were selected because they were considered meaningful to the questions raised and, for this reason, required more attention. In this scenario, through the different reports of defendants, victims, witnesses and justice, we made inferences that integrated the dialogue with the literature sources. The analysis provided important traces about the social norms on women's lives in the period surveyed and on the restrictions that they were submitted, showing, in these criminal cases, that many of them were not willing to submit to moralizing and disciplinary discourses. This dissertation is composed of four chapters in which it is present a discussion with several concepts, including gender, body, sexuality, identity and standard.