A atividade policial no sistema penal do Tocantins e as questões de gênero: o caso das policiais penais

Abstract

The objective of this research was to investigate the place of gender in power relations in the Tocantins Penitentiary System, from the perspective of the penal police officers of that state. It was proposed to understand to what extent power relations are mediated by gender issues and to identify possible situations of subordination, silencing contempt for the work of these police officers. For such an undertaking, a relationship was established between the concepts of gender, as a category of analysis, from the perspective of radical feminism, also considering the intersectionality of gender identified by intersectional feminism, with the speeches of female police officers. Oral history was chosen, as it is a method that considers the subjectivity of the speeches and enables the understanding of some variables intrinsic to the audience that was investigated, thus enabling a greater understanding of the perceptions and structures underlying the narratives. The research results point to the finding that, despite the presence of women in public security being a reality, the corporation in question reproduces the perspective of the fragility and subordination of women in the daily work, reproducing structural machismo.