When the women go: the avenues plan and the political-cultural clashes with women in São Paulo (1938-1945)

• Grant number: 22/08155-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: September 01, 2023
• Status: Discontinued
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Atique
• Grantee: Maíra Cunha Rosin
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/15362-0 - Women under the frame: The Female Presence in Urban Planning in New York and São Paulo in the 1940s, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

Many works had been dedicated to the study of several urban plans and how they were implemented in the city of São Paulo. But, however, most of these studies ended up leaving out who actually were benefited from the urban changes produced by such plans and how some groups ended up segregated and confined in order for the city and its rulers to achieve their goals. This project, therefore, aims to investigate how women from the most varied social strata, especially prostitutes, were not only excluded from urban plans, but were also placed in confinement zones based on moral dictates established by public policies. Therefore, this work focuses on the works of the Irradiation Perimeter of the Avenidas Plan, implemented during the government of Francisco Prestes Maia in the city of São Paulo (1938-1945) and on the way in which such policies found echoes in other cities and how modernity, despite the discourse in favor of women and their presence on the streets, did not think about how such bodies could circulate around the city. (AU)