Experiências urbanas de mulheres profissionais do sexo

Abstract

The inclusion of the woman in a state of prostitution within the urban space, using the street as place and an instrument of work, make the street emerge as a space of tension and games of power. The urban territory, therefore, is a space lived and experienced daily by women in a state of prostitution, their insertion in the city is according to a specific logic, harboring important elements in the production of subjectivity. The daily experience in these areas takes place in infinite ways, is concretized in several practices and has a unique impact on the lives of each of the workers. The urban experiences produced in this context sign the ways of using spaces, in a contextualized way, shelters social, economic and cultural crossings. Therefore the interest in producing with them a strangeness in relation to everyday work situations and their experience in the urban environment with the general objective of examining the relationship between work and urban experiences of woman in a state of prostitution who act in the streets, an urban ethnography was developed with cisgender sex workers that are located in social spaces in the city of Natal / RN. The urban ethnography allowed the apprehension of the activity in the urban organization, as prostitution is inserted in this context and the senses that the researched give the practices of work developed in the daily life of these streets. As an additional resource, a semi-structured interview was conducted to better categorize this public.