RELIGACIÓN

Yazarlar: María Florencia Actis, Juliana Inés Arens

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DOI:10.46652/rgn.v6i30.859

Anahtar Kelimeler:Women; Itineraries; Prison; Gender violence; Resistance to oppression

Özet: The article rethinks imprisoned women’s trajectories and the differential meanings that their time in prison assumes, avoiding reinscribing them in the position of “perfect victims”. That is, these trajectories take into account not only the structural conditions of oppression, and the violence that arises from them, but also the actions and decisions that these women carry out to survive. In this sense, the article focuses on the life story of Candela, a woman who went through the prison system on two occasions, and whose relationship with punitive agencies (not prisons) and with the family institution is analyzed. A biographical-narrative interview was conducted at her home, located in the city of Mar del Plata (Argentina) in August 2017. Her testimony reflects, on the one hand, the network of institutions that discipline the biographies of women in contexts of poverty and marginality, but also the “calculations” and strategies that they themselves deploy in pursuit of their care/defense, and that of their children. It is concluded that women survive “other prisons” that precede and are constellated with the prison system, endowing the latter with new and paradoxical meanings.

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