PhD student Bárbara Gonçalves Textor does exchange project at PRIVACY
This month we welcomed Bárbara Gonçalves Textor as a guest scholar to the Centre for Privacy Studies.
Textor is a PhD candidate at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Her research addresses gender relations, through criminal proceedings, referring to sexual violence. These crimes belong to Title VIII, “Of crimes against the security of the honor and honesty of families and public outrage at modesty” of the 1890 Brazilian Penal Code. One hundred fifty criminal proceedings are being used in her research, selected according to spatial, chronological, and criminal criteria, focusing on the city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. This study aims to analyze social and cultural practices, as well as moral values within this context, considering the actions and narratives that permeate the “strategies” of victims and defendants regarding the crimes in question.
Textor's exchange project at the Centre for Privacy Studies is entitled “Sexual Crimes, Honor, Violence and Privacy in Southern Brazil (1890-1942): New theoretical and methodological approaches”, aiming to integrate privacy studies methodologies into the study of issues of sexual violence, honor and reputation.
We realize how fruitful the intersection of the object of the thesis in development with the diverse themes of “Privacy”, given the usually private nature of such criminal occurrences, as well as immersion in private aspects that investigations of them allow us to access. Due to the dishonor assumed from the occurrence of sexual crimes, many cases sought solutions in private for as long as possible. What made those involved decide to take the cases to justice or to make it public? When did private solutions encounter obstacles?