Naked Bodies: A study on women, subjectivity and forms of eroticization in the sex industry

• Grant number: 23/07384-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: April 01, 2024
• End date: September 30, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Cynthia Andersen Sarti
• Grantee: Carla Beatriz Campos
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project aims to investigate women as social subjects that are created from the experience and trajectory in the sex market, considering the treatment of sexuality and the forms of eroticization produced in this context as a fundamental locus of analysis. For that, I depart from theoretical-methodological perspectives that understand the social and relational character of the body and the norms that fall upon it, as well as the regulatory devices on sexuality and the processes of its subjectivation by the subjects. I also consider the influence of the debates of the prostitutes, feminist and human rights movements in the discussion about female prostitution and the sex industry, taking these social universes as objects of my reflection, referencing them from the research on the subject carried out in Brazil in recent decades. Field research will consist of continuous and prolonged contact and interviews with women who work in prostitution or other forms of sex work, such as the production of pornographic films and erotic content.