Banca de DEFESA: CLAUDIELLE PAVÃO DA SILVA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : CLAUDIELLE PAVÃO DA SILVA
DATE: 01/09/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:

 Crossroads of Zona do Mangue: prostitution and territory in the Zona do Mangue area - Rio de Janeiro city, 1960-1970

KEY WORDS:

 Prostitution; Mangue Zone; Intersectionality; Race and Gender; Social History of Labor.

PAGES: 128
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This dissertation investigates prostitution in the Mangue Zone, located in the Cidade Nova neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, during the 1960s and 1970s. It highlights how sexual labor relations were shaped by race, gender, and class within a context marked by intense police repression and significant urban transformations. Drawing on newspapers, police reports, criminal reco rds, and oral testimonies, this research focuses on the experiences and everyday strategies adopted by cisgender women and travestis in navigating their interactions with police authorities, clients, pimps, and madams amid local social networks. The study explores how the criminalization and repression of prostitution intersected with prevailing hygienist and moralistic policies, directly impacting sex workers. Utilizing intersectionality as a key analytical concept, the multiple social identities of prostitutes and travestis in Mangue are examined, highlighting the complexities of their life trajectories characterized not only by stigma and social vulnerability but also by agency, resistance, and collective organization. The research incorporates a microhistorical approach inspired by Natalie Zemon Davis, constructing narratives that foreground the subjectivities of these women and emphasizing their emotional, religious, and community ties. It also investigates the particular histo ries of Eastern European Jewish immigrant women, known locally as "polacas," who significantly contributed to Rio de Janeiro's prostitution networks from the early twentieth century onward, demonstrating how prostitution could function as a deliberate strategy for survival and social mobility. Ultimately, this thesis reveals how the Mangue Zone, pressured by urban planning and political interventions leading to its closure in the 1970s, became a critical site for understanding historical intersections of sexuality, labor, race, and gender in post-abolition Brazil.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - ALESSANDRA TAVARES DE SOUZA PESSANHA BARBOSA - OUTRO
Presidente - 1542358 - ALVARO PEREIRA DO NASCIMENTO
Interno - 2649875 - CARLOS EDUARDO COUTINHO DA COSTA
Externo à Instituição - MAX FABIANO RODRIGUES DE OLIVEIRA - OUTRO
Externa à Instituição - NATÁLIA BATISTA PEÇANHA - UFU