Women's Police Stations Gender, Violence, and Justice in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Name: Women's Police Stations Gender, Violence, and Justice in Sao Paulo, Brazil
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ISBN: 9780312240424

ISBN-10: 0312240422

ISBN-13: 9780312240424

Edition: 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Cecilia MacDowell Santos

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Women's Police Stations examines the changing and complex relationship between women and the state, and the construction of gendered citizenship. These are police stations run exclusively by police women for women with the authority to investigate crimes against women, such as domestic violence, assault, and rape. Satilde;o Paulo was the home of the first such police station, and there are now more than 300 women's police stations throughout Brazil. Cecilia MacDowell Santos examines the importance of this phenomenon in book form for the first time, looking at the dynamics of the relationship between women and the state as a consequence of a political regime as well as other factors, and…

Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 4/8/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



The Birth of the World's First Women's Police Station


Engendering Policewomen's Interests and Identities


Feminist Debates over the Meaning of Violence against Women


Constructing Crimes and Engendering a Contradictory Citizenship


Engendering Battered Women's Sense of Rights