Feminismo e direito penal / Feminism and criminal law
AUTOR(ES)
Mariana Guimarães Rocha da Cunha Bueno
FONTE
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
20/10/2011
RESUMO
This paper aims at assessing the relations between the paradigm of gender and Criminal Law, with the purpose of understanding the limits of Criminal Law as an instrument of the feminist movement. It may be notices that at first, feminists highlighted the role of Criminal Law as a creative and reproductive instance of discrimination between men and women, acting as a system of formal control of women. At a second stage, one can perceive that Criminal Law is seen as an ally of the feminist movement in the search for material equality between men and women. The use of the afore mentioned area of Law by the feminist movement was also adopted by other social groups in the defense of their respective interests agrees with the trend of expansion of Criminal Law, perceived since the last two decades of the XXth Century in response to a growing social demand for government protection against criminal events. States have responded to this request by enacting several criminal laws associated, at some point, to measures of positive action or to clearly paternalist provisions. In such context, we intend to assess some of the recent amendments of foreign and national criminal legislation sponsored by the feminist movement, expanding criminalization of conducts in the area of domestic, sexual and gender violence, all to contribute to the raise of a dangerous Criminal Law of gender that, far from favoring feminine emancipation promotes, otherwise, the image of the woman as a frail, weak and defenseless human being.
ASSUNTO(S)
criminal law direito penal feminism feminismo gender violência doméstica
