Transgressão e controle sobre as mulheres na cidade de Goiás entre 1860 a 1900
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2024-08-28
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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Magali Engel (1988), in "Meretrizes e doutores: Saber médico e prostituição no
Rio de Janeiro (1840-1890)," states that "the conception of the prostitute is
constructed in opposition to the mother and wife," considering that the prostitute
would represent the opposite of what society, which valued morality and decency,
upheld. The actions of these transgressive women were aimed at resisting poverty.
The research sought to understand and describe the behaviors that frequently led
to the imprisonment of these women. The objective of this work is to analyze
prostitution in the City of Goiás at the end of the 19th century, between 1860 and
1900. In light of this proposal, to understand who these women were and the
context in which they were inserted, it was necessary to analyze the concepts of
vagrancy, vagabondage, and prostitution. Similarly, the research object was
framed by selecting a historiography and analyzing documents, all from the 19th
century, including police reports, newspapers, maps of the public jail of the City
of Goiás, municipal codes, criminal cases, Terms of Good Living, the Criminal
Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, and urban taxes. The investigation was
conducted through documentary and bibliographic analysis, discussion of
theoretical material, and data collection. In the first chapter, I draw on the text "As
estratégias de purificação dos espaços na capital da Província de Goiás-1835-
1843" by Cristina Cássia Moraes (1995) and the texts by Gustavo Neiva Coelho,
"O espaço urbano em Vila Boa: entre o veredito e vernacular" (2001), to describe
the public space. This debate revolves around the discussion the State had
regarding these spaces. In the second chapter, we will discuss the laws, how they
were created to produce regulations, and how they "organize" public spaces,
bodies, and the reprehensible behaviors of prostitutes. For the debate in this
second part of the text, we will use "A invenção da Vadiagem: os termos de bem
viver e a sociedade disciplinar no Império do Brasil" by Eduardo Martins (2011)
and the work of professor Danilo Rabelo (1997), "Os excessos do corpo: a
normalização dos comportamentos na Cidade de Goiás (1822-1889)". Prostitution
is "understood as the conscious practice of exchanging or negotiating for money
or other financial or material compensation" (Vieira, 2017, p. 1). In the City of
Goiás, these women were not economically privileged and were always associated
with disturbance, living on the margins of society. They live by their own means,
working during the day washing clothes, sewing, or cooking, and at night they
prostituted themselves.There was no designated prostitution zone in the city; the
services were performed in the homes of these women. Their actions violated the
law. They transgressed not because they lacked values but because their values
were different—it was the culture of the streets, of the working class, of sporadic
labor, and of popular traditions.
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NASCIMENTO, N. M. Transgressão e controle sobre as mulheres na cidade de Goiás entre 1860 a 1900. 2024. 93 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em História) - Faculdade de História, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2024.