By Sarah J. Hautzinger
Brazil's leading edge all-female police stations, put in as a part of the go back to civilian rule within the Eighties, mark the country's first attempt to police family violence opposed to ladies. Sarah J. Hautzinger's vividly unique, accessibly written examine explores this phenomenon as a window onto the moving dating among violence and gendered energy struggles within the urban of Salvador da Bahia. Hautzinger brings jointly particular voices--unexpectedly macho policewomen, the battered ladies they're charged with protecting, indomitable Bahian girls who disdain lady sufferers, and males who grapple with altering pressures on the topic of masculinity and honor. What emerges is a view of Brazil's policing scan as a pioneering, and probably radical, reaction to calls for of the women's circulate to construct feminism into the kingdom in a society essentially formed via gender.
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In Bahia, as in other “cultural showcase” cities in developing countries that depend on international tourism amid highly visible poverty, a gaping divide exists between spaces secured for the comfort and safety of the middle class and the spaces where the poor retreat to their humbler homes. During carnival this line becomes the ropes that keep the paying partiers in their blocos and those who cannot pay pushed to the edges of the street. 12 Poor and rich intermingle because there are many places where favela and “noble” spaces interpenetrate, but especially because so many poor work as service providers in the homes and neighborhoods of middle-class employers.
There are times when my entire body is covered with marks; I turn this color of purple when he beats me. This eye of mine, last year he beat me so much it just . . I don’t have anything to compare it to. It just stayed red, the white part was just red, red, red. Jacilene Perhaps I place these harrowing words and events in the introduction in a futile attempt to get something out of the way. When international journalists have interviewed me, I’ve frequently become aware that I was not 30 Introduction providing the material they were seeking from someone parked in a Brazilian police station or a slum, studying violence.
Many of these terms are still in use, as are practices that may categorize the same person by multiple “racial” categories or assign full siblings to wholly different “races” (cf. Kottak 1992: 13). Similarly, [table1] Introduction 25 Ta b l e 1 Regional distribution of population “by color” (por côr) In percentages Brazil Northeast a Southeast b Southc Other regionsd Region of Residence Branca (White) Preta (Black) Parda (Mulatto) 100 28 43 15 15 54 33 62 84 39 6 8 7 4 5 38 58 29 11 54 Preta and Parda (Part Other African- (Asian and Brazilian) Indigenous) 44 66 36 15 59 <1 <1 <1 <1 3 Source: Censo Demográfico 2000, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística.
