Abstract

MARITANO, Ornella  and  DEANGELI, Melina. Penalization in Córdoba (Argentina) in the Transition to the 20^th Century: Production and Normalization of Women under a Gender Perspective. Hist. Soc. [online]. 2021, n.41, pp.120-142.  Epub July 29, 2021. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n41.87900.

This article analyzes two devices of penalization in Cordoba (Argentina) implemented in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which influenced the production and safeguarding of gender stereotypes for women. We understand by penalization the penal complex as a whole. Therefore, we will analyze discourses held by judicial operators, on the one hand, and the dynamics developed in a penal institution -the Buen Pastor Prison-, on the other hand. The aim is to demonstrate how both devices operated as a mechanism that, in an interconnected and complementary way, influenced the production and consolidation of an ideal model of femininity, diagrammed by roles of mother and wife and subordinated to male authority. For this purpose, we will make a gendered reading of the discourses sustained by judges and defense lawyers in cases of adultery and infanticide and we will analyze the disciplinary mechanisms put into practice in the Prison. We are interested in highlighting the place of judicial discourse as an instrument that reproduces and consolidates gender imperatives and the role of the Prison as an institution aimed at normalization through a disciplining that was planned through the prescription of domestic tasks.

Keywords : gender; normalization; penalty; legal discourse; female prison; adultery; infanticide.

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