Abstract
This article discusses the tactics of corporal resistance exerted by people imprisoned in a female penitentiary, in their daily efforts to live in prison. Since confinement serves government policies of population control and management, seeking to curtail, or, at the limit, exterminate the life forms of those imprisoned, the article draws attention to the tactics enacted through the body in order to conduct life behind bars. Whether through scarification of the skin or psychiatric medicalization, these bodily inscriptions appear as signs of resistance and ways to subvert the erasure and normalization of the imprisoned subject.
Keywords:
Prison; Body; Resistance; Medication