Crimes da paixão: uma história de gênero na cidade de Bagé.

Abstract

In this study, we want to discuss Juridical representation presented in judgments by the Jury Trial of heat of passion homicides committed by middle class women in Bagé, a city in the west border of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. We identified cases of major importance according to the local printed press, the invisibility of these crimes in comparison to the ones committed by people of the male gender.Women and men who had committed heat of passion crimes are judged for different social attributes observing their approach, or distancing in their quotidian practices in the sexual roles as masculine or feminine. The versions produced on Judicial Action end up working with these notions revealed by “habitus” that, yet favors the masculine.The Jury Trial works as official instance of recontextualization having the speech of truth produced by it, a real pedagogical action that reinforces rules of behavior.Women are more submitted to social control done by institutions of informal control. When they start to be a subject of formal control, they are submitted to a logic based in the invisibility of this kind of cases. We mainly use oral thematic story, with documentary analysis of judicial action, and journalistic news. Theoretical milestone reference to Bourdieu (1999,2006), Foucault (2007), Perrot (2001,2007) e Correa (1981,1983).