Based on a feminist approach to law, we analyse dimensions of the performance of the Brazilian judiciary in three judgements of domestic and family violence against women that encompass sexual abuse. We show how gender-based violence is constructed in agreed decisions, on lawsuits under the Maria da Penha law, which is considered a landmark in Brazilian legislation on gender. Using a narrative approach and the concept of entextualisation, the analysis focuses firstly on the judicial acts as legal trajectories and the presentation of the episode of sexual violence that led to the judicial process. A second focus is on constructions of these same episodes in different instances of the judicial acts. We found that agents of the penal system, in applying the Maria da Penha law, reaffirm dominant structures of subjectivity, allowing a pre-established set of values against which the law sought precisely to break. Different judges provide divergent understandings in a single trial and may reveal more or less involvement with the political perspectives of the law. The findings have implications for discussions of women’s rights through criminal law.

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巴西司法系统性别暴力诉讼中的性虐待

基于女权主义的法律方法，我们分析了巴西司法机构在包括性虐待在内的针对妇女的家庭暴力的三项判决中的表现维度。我们展示了如何在商定的决定中构建基于性别的暴力，以及根据 Maria da Penha 法律提起的诉讼，该法律被认为是巴西性别立法的里程碑。使用叙事方法和情境化的概念，分析首先侧重于作为法律轨迹的司法行为以及导致司法程序的性暴力事件的呈现。第二个重点是在司法行为的不同情况下对这些相同情节的构建。我们发现刑罚系统的代理人，在应用玛丽亚·达佩尼亚法时，重申了主体性的主导结构，允许一组预先确定的价值观，而法律正是试图违反这些价值观。不同的法官在一次审判中提供了不同的理解，并可能或多或少地涉及法律的政治观点。调查结果对通过刑法讨论妇女权利具有影响。