Reflections on the Historical-Discursive Process of the Use of the Legitimate Defence of Honour in Brazil and the Construction of Women

Authors

  • Margarita Danielle Ramos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2012000100004

Abstract

This work uses a gender perspective to analyse the discourse in six documents in the jurisprudence of Minas Gerais. The objective is to understand how lawyers appeal until the present date to the legitimate defence of honour in trials of men who have killed a woman in order to avoid punishment for their crime. The analysis is based on two sets of studies: the study of the legislation concerning the concept of honour since the colonial period in Brazil and the study of the struggle that the Brazilian feminist movement has undertaken to remove violence against women from the private sphere and turn it into gender violence. The work attempts to show that the murder of women is the final step in a chain of violations against women, which begins in the devalued way that women are produced in discourse.

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Author Biography

Margarita Danielle Ramos

É graduada em Psicologia (2003), especialista em Psicanálise e mestre em Psicologia pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG, 2010). Sua dissertação teve como título: Assassinatos de mulheres: um estudo sobre a alegação, ainda aceita, da legítima defesa da honra nos julgamentos em Minas Gerais do ano de 2000 a 2008. Foi bolsista do CNPq no mestrado, sob a orientação da professora Dr.a Sandra Azerêdo.

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Published

2012-05-24

How to Cite

Ramos, M. D. (2012). Reflections on the Historical-Discursive Process of the Use of the Legitimate Defence of Honour in Brazil and the Construction of Women. Revista Estudos Feministas, 20(1), 53–73. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2012000100004

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 1 (2012)

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Articles

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