Uma história das mulheres por meio dos processos criminais (Crato-CE, 1875-1896).

Abstract

This research seeks to make an analysis through judicial processes on the conduct and moral feminine in the city of Crato in century XIX. As sources we will use criminal processes and police inquiries for crimes of defloration and rape available for research in the CEDOCC (Cariri Documentation Center), a laboratory linked to the Department of History of the Regional University of Cariri-URCA. Through the ties of historicity, typification and significance of nineteenth century legal discourse, I analyze how the lives of these women victims of sexual crimes were affected after having their sex life exposed in a judicial process. In principle, in order to safeguard their rights, they had to behave as honest women in the eyes of society and justice, otherwise they would lose moral prestige and find it difficult to "Marriage, social inclusion ballast and female respectability over time.