Recent Publications on Women's Police Stations

Hautzinger, S. (1997) "Calling a State a State": Feminist Politics and the Policing of Violence Against Women in Brazil." Feminist Issues, 15(1-2): 3-30

Hautzinger, S. (2002). "Criminalising Male Violence in Brazil's Women's Police Stations: from flawed essentialism to imagined communities". Journal of Gender Studies, Vol 11(3): 243-251.

Jubb, N.  (2001).  Enforcing Gendered Meanings and Social order:  The Participation of the National Police in the Nicaraguan Women's and Children's Police Stations.  Paper prepared for delivery at the 2001 meeting of the Latin America Studies Assoication, Washington, DC, September 6-8, 2001.

Jubb, N., Izumino, W. (2002).  Women and Policing in Latin America:  A Revised Background Paper.  Paper preapred as part of the 'Women and Policing in Latin America Project-Phase One.

MacDowell Santos, C. (Fall 2004). "En-gendering the Police: Women's Police Stations and Feminism in São Paulo.  Latin American Research Review". Vol 39 (3).

MacDowell Santos, C. (Forthcoming 2005). Women's Police Stations:  Gender, Violence, and Justice in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  Palgrave Macmillan.

Nelson, L.  The Defense of Honor:  Is it Still Honored in Brazil?.  In Wisconsin International Law Journal, 531. Available at here.

Nelson, S. Constructing and Negotiating Gender in Women's Police Stations in Brazil. In Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Political Economy of Gender.  Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc.

Ostermann, A. (2003).  "Communities of Practice at Work: Gender, Facework and the Power of Habitus at an All-Female Police Station and a Feminist Crisis Intervention Center in Brazil".  In Discourse & Society, Vol. 14 (4) 473-505.