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Women's Police Stations : Gender, Violence, and Justice in São Paulo, Brazil / by Cecília MacDowell Santos.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Santos, Cecília MacDowell.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology-Latin America.
- Sociology.
- Welfare state.
- Latin American Culture.
- Gender Studies.
- Politics of the Welfare State.
- Sociology, general.
- Local Subjects:
- Latin American Culture.
- Gender Studies.
- Politics of the Welfare State.
- Sociology, general.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 246 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Women's Police Stations examines the changing and complex relationship between women and the state, and the construction of gendered citizenship, using women's police stations in Sao Paulo. These are police stations run exclusively by police women for women with the authority to investigate crimes against women such as domestic violence, assault and rape. Sao Paulo was the home of the first such police station, and there are now more than 250 women's police stations throughout Brazil. Cecilia MacDowell Santos examines the importance of this phenomenon for the first time, looking at the dynamics of the relationship between women and the state as a consequence of a political regime, and exploring the notion of gendered citizenship.
- Notes:
- "Draws on original research for my Ph. D. dissertation"--Acknowledgments.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-205) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611367176
- 9781281367174
- 1281367176
- 9781403973412
- 1403973415
- OCLC:
- 426227363
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