Women interrupted by the power of patriarchy - the madness

This article aims to demonstrate how a set of ideas, norms, culture, social and moral rules defines "the feminine", triggering strong coercive actions resulting in violent hospitalizations in the Juliano Moreira Asylum in Belém do Pará, in the 50's, I justify the choice of this period due to a personal case in the family that I always wanted to understand better. The objective was to research how and what were the diagnostic reasons women were admitted to the asylum. Our hypothesis is that many women were isolated, with their lives interrupted just because they were women who deviated from the standards of the time, who did not remain silent in the face of the injustices committed against them. The methodology used was the research of hospitalized patients' records, history and described symptomatology. The research focuses on 6 cases of women hospitalized as a way of correcting an attitude towards life that is not consistent with the parameters of the current society; Mad women bring with them the violation of freedoms, interruption of a social life and the youth of women considered unsuitable for society, thus allowing a discussion about Madness based on Foucault's writings, patriarchy and the appropriation of women's bodies, minds and lives.