Colorado College alumni and parents in Denver

Violence in the City of Women: Police and Batterers in Bahia, Brazil

Thursday, May 21, 2009
1:00pm-3:00pm

Tivoli Student Union
Tivoli Room 320A
Auraria Campus

Light Refreshments served

How effective have Brazil’s all-female police stations been at reforming a “macho” police culture that historically accepted violence against women? Sarah Hautzinger will present her long-term, ethnographic fieldwork in one such police station, located in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, which is also the center of African-Brazilian culture. She will discuss the pros and cons of gender segregation in policing, how different patterns of violence may require different institutional responses, and the significance criminalizing domestic violence holds for performances of masculinity.

Sarah Hautzinger holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, and is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Partnership for Civic Engagement at Colorado College. She is an ethnographer and cultural anthropologist with particular interests in gender, state power, religion and ritual, Latin American and the Caribbean, and the African Diaspora. Her 2007 book Violence in the City of Women: Gender and Battering in Bahia, Brazil was published by the University of California Press. Currently, she is researching how Army micro-cultures shape soldier attitudes about PTSD at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs.

RSVP to cdv@ucdenver.edu or (303) 315-2489.