BEYOND A FOOTNOTE: The female driving force in Brazil's public security field
Public security, field, contribution, gender, women.
This dissertation investigates women's contributions to the construction of the public security field in Brazil, based on their perceptions of career trajectories, work in public management, and epistemological constructions related to the subject. The research employs an essentially qualitative approach, based on 32 interviews conducted with scholars and public managers between 2022 and 2023, while also considering quantitative data from document analysis and theoretical frameworks found throughout the study. The findings revealed how the productions of these professionals and their implications in the public security field in Brazil help dismantle stigmas rooted in genderbased oppression. In conclusion, it was observed that women's work occupies a point of intersection among three fundamental pillars for transforming public security in Brazil: the relationship between the state, academia, and civil society. Finally, the study highlights the significance of an intersectional perspective of the subject, associated with the perception of the essential capitals required for women to access and remain in the field. aiming to enable new theoretical frameworks regarding the presence of women in Brazilian public security.