Abstract
The present article aims to present the data obtained through a research carried out in a female prison located in the sertão of Pernambuco. Anchored in an ethnographic perspective, the goal was to understand how incarcerated women locate their affective and sexual experiences in face of disciplinary procedures that regulate their daily lives in prison. The informations were collected through observations in the context of the investigation and twelve (12) interviews with women who were in prison. The data obtained were recorded in field diaries, transcribed and submitted to ethnographic analysis. The results found point to heterogeneous ways of experiencing desires, pleasures and corporalities in prison reality, materialized through intimate visits, the exchange of letters and messages, the constitution of a relationship between the internal ones, the new family arrangements that are designed there. Sexualities are, therefore, important threads of resistance to the mortifying effects that the jail puts on these women’s lives.
Sexualities; Prison; Strength; Women; Psychology