Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ZAIRA JESUS PEREIRA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ZAIRA JESUS PEREIRA
DATE: 16/03/2026
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Virtual
TITLE:

Prison, gender, and violence:
a study of the documentary Flowers of Prison (2019)

 

KEY WORDS:

GENDER, PRISON, DOCUMENTARY FLOWERS OF PRISON

PAGES: 20
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

I am a criminal defense lawyer and professor of criminal law and criminal procedure, with an academic career marked by an interest in understanding issues related to gender violence and how it occurs in the prison system. Throughout my professional career, I have been able to perceive how the female experience in the criminal justice system is marked by silences and invisibilities that go beyond the legal field, reaching social, political, and cultural dimensions.

This perception, combined with my dedication to the study of gender issues, motivated the choice of this research. Gender violence, especially when related to the incarceration of women, although little explored in academic debate, faces barriers to recognition in the broader social discourse. In this sense, the analysis of this phenomenon reveals itself not only as a personal and professional concern, but also as a critical reflection on the forms of representation of the female experience in prison. Inserted within research line 1, this project proposes to investigate, based on the documentary Flowers of Prison (2019), how verbal language articulates with images to construct meanings about the experience of women deprived of liberty. Based on theoretical reflections involving literature, audiovisual media, culture, and technology (understanding literature especially in its expanded dimension, if we can call the script that sustains the film that), we want to understand how different languages are articulated in the construction of meanings and in making visible the marks of gender violence in the context of female incarceration, considering the chosen corpus.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - JOYCE RODRIGUES SILVA GONÇALVES
Presidente - LUIZ HENRIQUE SILVA DE OLIVEIRA
Interna - MARIANA JAFET CESTARI