The text addresses questions regarding female perversion, retracing the ways of life of women imprisoned with their children in the Center of Reference to the Pregnant Woman Deprived of Freedom, in Minas Gerais, Brazil, based on information from research that was locally carried out. The content is guided by psychoanalysis and, from the lacanian conviction regarding the absence of female perversion, we are led to the unbearable condition – for these childbearers – of being full-time mothers.
Imprisoned women; mothers; children; perversion