Los lazos sexo-afectivos: modos de ejercicio de cuidado en mujeres privadas de libertad

Abstract

The exercise of care is a right that is deployed in specific ways in different areas. The purpose of this article is to analyze the sex-affective ties in women deprived of their freedom, as a type of exercise of care. The sex-affective logics are presented in the situation of women incarcerated in the Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service (SPB), contemplating the contributions of the emotional turn. From the definition of the politicity of emotions, as a care activity, the links between women prisoners are analyzed, and the emotions they show in relation to their families, actors involved in the situation of deprivation of liberty and between their own women arrested. The article analyzes the emotions of women deprived of liberty and the specificity of them based on the modes of collective organization among women, taking the notion of affidamento networks. The article aims to make the definition of care more complex based on the contribution of the emotional turn and contributes to the study of the specificity of women in the plots of punitive power