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| Author(s): |
Ana Carolina Braga Azevedo
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2024-04-16 |
| Examining board members: |
Heloisa Buarque de Almeida;
José Miguel Nieto Olivar;
Ana Paula da Silva
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| Advisor: | Heloisa Buarque de Almeida |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation employs a multi-sited ethnographic approach to explore how certain abolitionists perspectives on prostitution crossed the life of Cleone Santos a woman who lived in situation of prostitution for nearly two decades. From these multiple crossings, Cleone was able to narrate her experiences and tell her story. In this manner, Cleone also built her own abolitionist policies through the realization of her dream: a feminist collective that seeks to ensure human rights of women who find themselves in situation of prostitution. Since 2013, the Collective Mulheres da Luz has operated with a methodology of being present, welcoming, listening, and making proposals alongside women in situation of prostitution, in the central region of São Paulo an area where prostitution is mostly carried out by cisgender, racialized, and older women from \"lower classes\". Over the course of four years, I have followed the dynamics of this collective as a way of understanding how this organization (re)produces and undertakes its abolitionists discourses and practices through the management of the political category women in situation of prostitution. By examining the discourses and practices undertaken by Cleone and other Collective members, I analyzed how this collective translates prostitution and certain notions that are, sometimes, used to think about this phenomenon. Moreover, this work also sought to understand how women who act in prostitution and frequent the organization\'s space perceive and manage the aid offered by the Collective. Furthermore, as a way of understanding the abolitionists perspectives that crossed Cleone, this dissertation also examines the contexts in which certain perspectives on prostitution entered the Brazilian context. This involves revisiting state policies through brief discursive and legal analyses - based on decrees, laws, and bills, as well as considering the political contributions made by various social sectors engaged in abolitionists or anti-abolitionists struggles (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 20/04319-5 - Minefield: agencies and disputes over prostitution at Parque da Luz |
| Grantee: | Ana Carolina Braga Azevedo |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |