Abstract
On this essay, I analyze different ways in which gender and sexuality relations works on the narrative contexture of the judgement of the Habeas Corpus 152752/PR, impetrated by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's lawyers to the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court. Therefore, I examine the three Federal Supreme Court ministers' votes in which the figures of “rape” and/or “rapists” were alluded on the basis of their decisions. Thereby I pursue two main problems: a) the mobilization of moral conventions about gender and sexuality deeply participates in the juridical narratives and, specially, in the figuration of the “executioner”, in a way that the “rapist” works as an external element which constitutes the “defendant”; and b) gender and sexuality relations act on the production of Estate's meanings, logics and processes, but, overall, on what interests here the most, act on the juridical dimensions.
Keywords:
Sexuality; Gender; Brazilian Federal Supreme Court; Lula