Abstract:
Studies on visiting days in prison focus almost only on women who carry out this activity in male prison institutions. In order to broaden the analysis on the subject, we sought, in this manuscript, to investigate different portions of the group of female prison visitors who perform the male gender. Through an ethnographic survey conducted at the external borders of two women’s prisons, 50 men became interlocutors, most of them relatives of women deprived of liberty. As a result, we observed the discursive production of visitors about conjugality and prison care, as well as the exercise of male support on the margins of prisons. Such findings allowed comparative analyses with male prison facilities, pointing to new gender issues involved in the phenomenon of prison visitation.
Keywords:
men; women’s prisons; family relationships; care; support networks