O doce veneno da noite: prostituição e cotidiano em Campina Grande (1930-1950).

Abstract

The central objective of our work is to show how the discourses of the literate of Campina Grande in the period between 1930 and 1950, especially jurists and journalists, thought and set up a place for the harlots and what their attitudes towards those lines that often were exclusionary in their daily practices and in relationships with different people and social groups. To accomplish this path, we analyze the legal discourses through the processes based on medical discourse, tried to exclude and marginalize prostitutes with the aim of both "sanitizing" the city as it underwent urban "women who, for them, represented the opposite of all this, and push them away from society so that they don't put in check morals and morals. At the same time we realize that the harlots who lived at that time many sometimes circumvented these interdictions or even appropriated certain social codes so that they may escape the meshes of righteousness. Analyzing their daily practices through criminal proceedings, we realize that these women tried to show that the world in which they lived was not so unruly and as the medical, legal and journalistic discourses affirmed, as they created a network of solidarity and friendship among themselves that espoused values, often coming from the bourgeois society, to build or represent a world around resemble the values ​​cultivated in this same society.