Menstruating prisoners

The brutal lives of women - treated like men - in Brazilian prisons.

A comprehensive report on the daily life of women's prisons in Brazil, a taboo subject in this country, Nana Queiroz achieves what is expected of the future of journalism: by listening to and giving voice to the inmates (and their families), from the episodes that led to their imprisonment to their daily lives, the author weaves together and illuminates the most comprehensive and ambitious panorama of the life of a Brazilian prisoner. A must-read book for understanding that one cannot discuss the misery of the Brazilian prison system without incorporating and discussing its invisible side.

Menstruating Prisoners , a work that opens up yet another non-idealized field of research on femininity, is a report that delivers on its promise from the title: the knots in Brazilian society will not cease to exist simply by concealment - but only by confronting them.