Nunes Lívia Rangel de Christo, Deslandes Suely Ferreira, Jannotti Claudia Bonan
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Instituto Nacional de Saúde da mulher, da Criança e do Adolescente Fernandes Figueira, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Cad Saude Publica. 2020 Dec 18;36(12):e00215719. doi: 10.1590/0102-311X00215719. eCollection 2020.
When women inmates in Brazil give birth during their incarceration, they have the right to stay with their children in specific units for mothers and infants for at least six months. The focus of this living experience is care and protection of the child, but it takes places in a setting determined by the prison order. This study aims to analyze the exercise of motherhood in prison. Six narrative interviews were performed in Rio de Janeiro: two with women who experienced motherhood while in prison in the Maternal and Child Unit at the Gericinó Prison Complex, and four with staff members of nongovernmental organizations working with women who had given birth during incarceration. The narratives were analyzed via interpretation of the roles and relations between the narrated characters and the way their interactions shape the stories. Finally, an interpretative linkage was established between the narratives and the theoretical frame of reference on gender and prisons. The study concludes that the prison rules and standards of care produce tensions and convergences in a dynamic that seeks to benefit the infant without failing to punish the woman. Motherhood in prison thus acts as a way of reaffirming a gender morality, defined as the role of good mother.
在巴西，女性囚犯在监禁期间分娩时，有权与子女在母婴专用单元共同生活至少六个月。这种生活体验的重点是对儿童的照料和保护，但它是在监狱秩序所决定的环境中进行的。本研究旨在分析监狱中母亲身份的实践情况。在里约热内卢进行了六次叙事访谈：两次访谈对象是在热里西诺监狱综合体母婴单元服刑期间经历过母亲身份的女性，另外四次访谈对象是与在监禁期间分娩的女性合作的非政府组织工作人员。通过解读叙述人物之间的角色和关系以及他们的互动如何塑造故事来分析这些叙事。最后，在这些叙事与关于性别和监狱的理论参考框架之间建立了解读联系。研究得出结论，监狱规则和护理标准在一种动态中产生了紧张关系和趋同现象，这种动态旨在使婴儿受益而又不疏于惩罚女性。因此，监狱中的母亲身份成为重申一种性别道德的方式，这种性别道德被定义为好母亲的角色。
