Violence in the city of women : police and batterers in Bahia, Brazil / Sarah J. Hautzinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hautzinger, Sarah J., 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Brazil--Bahia (State).

Women.

Policewomen--Brazil--Bahia (State).

Policewomen.

Brazil--Bahia (State).

Family violence--Brazil--Bahia (State).

Family violence.

Masculinity--Brazil--Bahia (State).

Masculinity.

Sex role--Brazil--Bahia (State).

Sex role.

Physical Description:

xx, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]

Summary:

Brazil's innovative all-female police stations, installed as part of the return to civilian rule in the 1980s, mark the country's first effort to police domestic violence against women. Sarah J. Hautzinger's vividly detailed, accessibly written study explores this phenomenon as a window onto the shifting relationship between violence and gendered power struggles in the city of Salvador da Bahia. Hautzinger brings together distinct voices-unexpectedly macho police-women, the battered women whom they are charged with defending, indomitable Bahian women who disdain female victims, and men who grapple with changing pressures related to masculinity and honor. What emerges is a view of Brazil's policing experiment as a pioneering, and potentially radical, response to the demands of the women's movement that feminism be built into the state-even in a society that is fundamentally shaped by gender.

Contents:

Introduction: violence in Salvador da Bahia, city of women

Womanly webs: in-laws and violence

When cocks can't crow: masculinity and violence

Paths to a women's police station

Policing by and for women

Reluctant champions: policewomen or women police?

Conclusion and epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-325) and index.

ISBN:

9780520252769

0520252764

9780520252776

0520252772

OCLC:

75087958