LIMA, Y. F. C.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5893868418892665; LIMA, Yago Felipe Campelo de.
Résumé:
This dissertation aims first to think, as in a given historical moment - the 1960s and 1970s - the
phenomenon of prostitution is possible for readings and re-readings in a city of Agreste Pernambucano:
Caruaru, from the discourses and statements contained in the newspapers DEFESA and VANGUARDA
initially, subsidiary sources for this work, together with some bills of the City Council of
city councilors and the local littoral, like the example of Nelson Barbalho. Two specific objectives
were built, with the purpose of being theoretically linked to the general proposal of the study, providing
answers to the initial questions, which were: 1) To understand, as a representation, sensitivity and
exclusion are articulated in this city plot : the fight against prostitution in Caruaru; 2) Primarily for
representations, as constructors of the social world and forgers of a city imaginary about prostitution
by discourses and their many power relations and knowledge together, as well as the urban sensitivities
around the theme. The dissertation is composed of two chapters and the final considerations,
chapter I: Fields of the sensible, places of representation, borders of exclusion: in a relationship, prostitutes
and the city. And, chapter II: Memories of a "bad place": between words, memories and temptations
of forgetfulness. For the operationalization of the research, we have appropriated some key
concepts, such as representation, from the French historian of culture, Roger Chartier, sensitivity,
exclusion and segregation, by the Brazilian historian Sandra Jatahy Pesa-vento, discourse and discursive
battle , of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, to justify what is being defended in this
dissertation and to try to understand the life of these women-prostitutes of the 1960s and 1970s in the
"Princess of the Agreste".