An ethnography of the archive on the process of changing the name of social use in the public defender of the state of Bahia
Identity; Social Name; Transsexuality; Ethnography; Public Defender’s Office.
This work is about gender change processes and the social name used in documents as theme and discusses the legal procedures and understandings on the subject from an ethnography carried out with the public defender’s office in the state of Bahia. Dialogues were held with female employees, observation of the institutional space and analysis of legal proceedings. The data were interpreted from the identity, gender and sexuality theories seeking to identify representations, ideologies, prejudices and stigmas involved in legal procedures; as well as to detect paradigm changes in this field.