“Pelo amor que lhe tenho, você vai morrer”: uma análise de crimes passionais na cidade de Aurora (Ceará, Anos 1950).

Abstract

This research aimed to discuss crimes of passion in the city of Aurora-Ceará, in the fifties, taking as focus of analysis the celebrated crime Francisca Augusta that the local popular belief, was to become holy. In the analysis, we tried to make a social history of the connection of crime and gender relations, seeking to understand the roles reserved for men and women in society aurorense from the passionate conflict. This, among the bibliography used, we highlight as a theoretical Joan Scott author for a better assimilation of gender relations and author Edward Palmer Thompson in the analysis of the social history of crime. Therefore, we used two processes crimes found in the Forum Jaime de Alencar Araripe file, in the city of Aurora, but also made use of oral sources obtained through interviews - plus some references. He sought to understand how were the social relations between men and women, making a comparison between the two processes used in order to realize how they were present the speeches of the main institutions of the time about the behavior of men and women. Observing as they were idealized by society, the relations of men and women, which suffered punishment as it implied in their social positions. Therefore, we sought to understand the various mechanisms produced by society through the church and state in order to regulate postures and conviviality between men and women.