O estupro como instrumento de manutenção da hierarquia de gênero em detrimento do corpo feminino: uma análise criminológica feminista

Abstract

This paper proposes to know, through the feminist criminological analysis, the connection between rape and the preservation of gender hierarchy, in order to realize why this act is used as a mechanism to achieve that, and not as a sexual activity, as society assumes it is. Therefore, it was discovered that, in a gender-based society, centered by the power relationship between male/dominator and female/dominated, violation finds its meaning by setting and maintaining this power just because it acts like a mechanism that sustains the male status and tames the female body. Even in the private sphere or in the war context, violation assumes the symbolic significance of domination, where its typical of the modern wars that rape acts like an instrument to achieve a cost-effective ethnic cleansing.