Abstract:
The objective of this article is to reveal the logic of social norms of intelligibility and recognition that allows gender violence against women visitors to prisons to continue in Brazil by stipulating who counts as a recognizable and livable human life. In legal terms, the discourse that justifies the vexatious intimate body searches is deconstructed through the analysis of the corporal punishment of these women and the violation of the principal of the individual character of a sentence. The problem is then analyzed by applying theoretical categories of performativity, framing and precarity developed by Judith Butler. The analyses allow concluding that the institutionalized violence to which these women are subjected results from the fact that their lives are not recognized as normatively human and livable, considering the depletion of the very condition of existence and grief.
Keywords:
Precarity; Livable life; grieving; Framing; Vexatious body searches