GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE LIFE STORIES OF WOMEN INVOLVED IN DRUG TRAFFICKING: BETWEEN BREAKS AND CONTINUITIES

Abstract

In a study carried out with women involved with the drug trafficking, the objective was to identify the repertories used by them in their narratives related to their life history. We could realize that the identity of these women is built in the midst of the multiple positions assumed by them, sometimes in the field of continuities, sometimes in discontinuities, especially those who are related to the heteronormative discourse of gender and sexuality. The narrators' permanence in the hegemonic constructions of gender need to be thought of as a function of the force of the discourses that regulate and produce the genres, in which their effects go back to the naturalization of behaviors, based on a numerous relations of power in society.