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"Arrest me, DeleGata!" - gender performativities in the construction of beauty as an aesthetic and discursive weapon of power among female Civil Police chiefs

Ciência & saude coletiva, 2024-02, Vol.29 (2), p.e15552023 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

ISSN: 1413-8123 ;EISSN: 1678-4561 ;DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232024292.15552023EN ;PMID: 38324831

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  • Title:
    "Arrest me, DeleGata!" - gender performativities in the construction of beauty as an aesthetic and discursive weapon of power among female Civil Police chiefs
  • Author: Silva, Daniele Andrade da ; Uziel, Anna Paula
  • Subjects: Adult ; Beauty ; Brazil ; Esthetics ; Female ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Police
  • Is Part Of: Ciência & saude coletiva, 2024-02, Vol.29 (2), p.e15552023
  • Description: This article discusses the performative gender constructions of female police chiefs working in Rio de Janeiro state. Using cartography as a research method, we follow the paths, connections, and construction of femininities, activated and performed by our respondents to establish a place of respect and prominence within and outside the Institution, using beauty as an aesthetic and discursive power tool based on the DeleGata performative class. Cartographic interviews were conducted with nine female police chiefs in Rio de Janeiro state aged 30 to 59. Although the police have historically valued recognized masculine ideals, such as strength and virility, the gender performativities operated by female police chiefs allow for police feminization. The figure/enunciation of DeleGata, who builds an image of the female police chief, implying a unity, signifies producing political subjects, ideas, and values that reach a communicative and performative standard, making visible some woman who adorns - with her beauty - and simultaneously surprises - with her intelligence. The DeleGata thus brings into play apparently antagonistic extremes: beauty-intelligence, sensuality-power, femininity-strength, producing a social and symbolic regimen for the production of bodies and femininities.
  • Publisher: Brazil
  • Language: Portuguese;English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1413-8123
    EISSN: 1678-4561
    DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232024292.15552023EN
    PMID: 38324831
  • Source: MEDLINE
    ProQuest Central
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