Gender, race and class: The inmates of the Esquirol Section beyond madness

Authors

  • Renata Patricia Forain de Valentim Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. UERJ https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6272-0693
  • Mariah Martins Universidade do Rio de Janeiro
  • Letícia Palmeira Martins Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
  • Tamiris Rejane Moreira Freitas Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1807-8214.2020v29n1.48729

Abstract

This paper analyzes the psychiatric and institutional practices aimed at crazy and poor women in the first decades of the Brazilian republic. It also circumscribes what was characterized as feminine madness and reflects on how this conceptualization interacts with other discourses that define the period. To this end, it analyzes 24 medical records of the patients transferred from the National Hospital to the first exclusively female psychiatric institution, the Colony of Engenho de Dentro Psychopaths. The information from these documents was complemented by others, located in the National Archives and IPUB, such as: memos, requests, reports and correspondence that narrate daily aspects of the colony. Data analysis is based on the concept of intersectionality, a category that incorporates one of the central axes of feminist epistemology. Through the results, it is possible to analyze the action of the interconnected institutional powers in the treatment processes aimed at hospitalized women and how much they reflect the patriarchal, classist, and slave aspects of Brazilian society at that time.

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Author Biographies

Renata Patricia Forain de Valentim, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. UERJ

Pós doutora em Psicologia. Professora na Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

Mariah Martins, Universidade do Rio de Janeiro

Graduanda no curso de Psicologia da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Bolsista de iniciação científica Faperj e UERJ.

Letícia Palmeira Martins, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Graduanda do curso de Psicologia na Universidade do Rio de Janeiro. Bolsista de iniciação científica FAPERJ

Tamiris Rejane Moreira Freitas, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Graduanda no curso de Psicologia da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Bolsista Faperj e UERJ.

Published

2020-07-17

How to Cite

VALENTIM, R. P. F. de; MARTINS, M.; PALMEIRA MARTINS, L.; MOREIRA FREITAS, T. R. Gender, race and class: The inmates of the Esquirol Section beyond madness. Revista Ártemis, [S. l.], v. 29, n. 1, p. 386–406, 2020. DOI: 10.22478/ufpb.1807-8214.2020v29n1.48729. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs/index.php/artemis/article/view/48729. Acesso em: 24 dec. 2024.