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0366/2023 - “Me prende, DeleGata!”- performatividades de gênero na construção da beleza como uma arma estética e discursiva de poder entre delegadas da Polícia Civil

Author:

• Daniele Andrade da Silva - da Silva, D. A. - <danieleandradepsi@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5798-1263

Co-author(s):

• Anna Uziel - Uziel, A. - <uzielap@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7807-3910


Abstract:

This article discusses the performative gender constructions of female police officers working in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Using cartography as a research method, we follow the paths, connections and processes of constructing femininities, activated and performed by our interviewees to establish a place of respect and prominence within and outside the institution, using beauty as an aesthetic and discursive tool of power, based on the DeleGata performative class. Cartographic interviews were carried out with nine female police officers in the state of Rio de Janeiro, aged between 30 and 59. Although the police have historically valued ideals recognized as masculine, such as strength and virility, the gender performativities operated by female police officers allow for a feminization of the police. The figure/enunciation of DeleGata, who constructs an image of the female police officer, implying a unity, signifies the production of political subjects, as well as ideas and values that reach a communicative and performative standard, making visible a certain woman who adorns - with her beauty - and surprises - with her intelligence - at the same time. DeleGata thus brings into play apparently antagonistic extremes: beauty-intelligence, sensuality-power, femininity-strength and produces a social and symbolic regime for the production of bodies and femininities.

Keywords:

Female Police Chiefs. Femininities. Police. Gender. Beauty.

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da Silva, D. A., Uziel, A.. “Me prende, DeleGata!”- performatividades de gênero na construção da beleza como uma arma estética e discursiva de poder entre delegadas da Polícia Civil. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2023/Dec). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/me-prende-delegata-performatividades-de-genero-na-construcao-da-beleza-como-uma-arma-estetica-e-discursiva-de-poder-entre-delegadas-da-policia-civil/18992



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