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SCHETTINI PEREIRA Cristiana
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
The politics of sex in the south: narratives of traffic in women and women’s 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: women’s 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.