INVESTIGADORES
SCHETTINI PEREIRA Cristiana
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
The politics of sex in the south: narratives of traffic in women and womens experiences of work in prostitution in turn-of-the-century Buenos Aires
Autor/es:
SCHETTINI PEREIRA, CRISTIANA
Lugar:
Scripps College, Claremont, California
Reunión:
Conferencia; Berkshire Conference on the History of Women: Sin fronteras: womens histories, global conversations; 2005
Institución organizadora:
The Berkshire Conference on History of Women
Resumen:
Using police records and the daily press from
both Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, this paper demonstrates the transnacional
linkages between prostitution in these two cities. Additionaly, it highlights
the similarities and distinctions in the ways in which the traffic of women
were politically manipulated in each city. As prostitution was never formaly
state-regulated in Rio de Janeiro as it was in Argentina, the Brazilian
contexts provides an analytically important contrast with Buenos Aires. Perhaps
even more importantly, many of the women who worked as prostitutes in Buenos
Aires had spent time in Brazils then capital and maintained connections there. The
very centrality of this lived experience of transnationality in their lives makes
their history a meaningful case study for rethinking the possibilities of a
transnational social history from a feminist perspective.