Name: MIRELA MARIN MORGANTE
Type: PhD thesis
Publication date: 13/05/2020
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| MARIA BEATRIZ NADER | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| JUÇARA LUZIA LEITE | Internal Examiner * |
| MARIA BEATRIZ NADER | Advisor * |
| MARIA CRISTINA DADALTO | Internal Examiner * |
| THANA MARA DE SOUZA | External Examiner * |
Summary: In the late 1960s, in the midst of the demographic and urban growth of Vitória, capital of Espírito Santo, the state government started to give speeches and implement practices of social ordering and hygiene in the city, which saw prostitution as a "social disease". With this, the techniques of power and the disciplinary mechanisms started to operate in the central region of the state capital in order to remove prostitutes, mostly poor and black, from the leisure and residence places of the middle and upper classes, composed mainly of a white population, framed within the bourgeois family model. Expelled from their places of work and social life, the brothel owners and prostitutes moved to the territory of São Sebastião, located near the recently opened Port of Tubarão, in the municipality of Serra, belonging to the Greater Vitória Metropolitan Region (GVMR). There, they built nightclubs and created new networks of power and affection relationships, as effects of the power that imposed their marginalization and social exclusion. In a short matter of time, the territory started to concentrate several prostitution houses, bars and dormitories, in addition to police and medical posts, configuring itself as a
region of confinement of the prostitution of GVMR. However, at the beginning of the 1980s, with the economic, population, political and social changes in the Brazil and Espírito Santo, the São Sebastião sex market began a process of decline. The name of the neighborhood changed to Novo Horizonte and the women who worked in prostitution had to find alternatives for survival consistent with their personal desires and relations. Based on the memoirs of three former prostitutes and a former madam from the territory, the research analyzes the power relations and resistances that constitute their experiences in São Sebastião. The objective is to understand the process of producing their subjectivities in the space-time of the "territory of desire" of the GVMR, with effects on their habits and their current perceptions. To this end, Oral History is used as a source and method of historical research, combined with discourse analysis from complementary sources, namely, articles from Espírito Santo magazines, chronicles on the subject and a television report of the time.
