Women's police stations
Subtitle: gender, violence, and justice in São Paulo, Brazil
By: Cecília MacDowell Santos.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Women's police stations -- Brazil -- São Paulo; Women -- Violence against -- Brazil -- São Paulo; Policewomen -- Brazil -- São Paulo; Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Brazil -- São Paulo; Feminist criminology -- Brazil -- São Paulo
Description: 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. São 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 exploring the notion of gendered citizenship.
Notes: "Draws on original research for my Ph. D. dissertation"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-237) and index.