Representações de gênero em ocorrências policiais de violência contra mulheres na construção de Brasília

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the police events registered in Books of Minutes in the
NOVACAP Security Division, sector the which the police were linked the extinct Guarda Especial
de Brasília (Special Guard of Brasília) – GEB. They report violence against women in the public
space of the construction of Brasília. The chosen reports were produced in the period 1958 to 1961.
They refer to crimes in various locations related to construction sites such as in Cidade Livre (current
Núcleo Bandeirante), in camps, in villages (such as Amaury or Bananal), in Zona do Baixo Meretrício
- ZBM, on roads that interconnected these places, and others. The elements of this research
demonstrates that the association of gender and violence against women, shown in the form of theirrepresentations have significance, which show permanence. Thus, this article seeks to address
questions that contribute to women’s everyday visibility and the questioning of gender
representations contained in the narrative constructed by the GEB guards that recorded those
events, in the context of the Brasília construction.