As configurações de género nos regimes prisionais e a reprodução da carceralidade

Abstract

This article reflects upon issues emerging from the research on gender configurations in prison regimes from the 1950s to the present day, taking two female prisons in Portugal as its point of departure. The analysis of gender configurations in prison regimes, through the feminist ethnography in action, highlighted the reproduction of carcerality based on three lines of force: the patriarchal culture of punishment and prison; prison regimes and gender carcerality; and the carceral continuum and carceral geography. It is argued that the causes and effects of penitentiary prison, over time, despite some variations, have remained more or less stable, feeding the reproduction of carcerality that generates the production of criminalised subjectivities and the maintenance of the white male status quo, legitimating the power of the state and capitalist political and economic elites in the heteropatriarchal and colonial management of life.

Keywords

• carcerality
• gender configurations
• prison regimes