Nem santas nem putas, apenas mulheres: espacialidades de mulheres prostitutas de baixa renda no exercício de maternagens em Ponta Grossa – PR.

Abstract

This research has as central question: how are the spatialities of prostitutes women established in the practice of maternity, in the city of Ponta Grossa, Paraná? For respond to it, two surveys of the prostitution sites in the city were made, in the years 2013 and 2016, involving the application of 115 questionnaires. From this survey, it was possible to identify three places of prostitution used by low-income women, such as nightclubs, bars and specific streets of the city. The identification of mothers women who were carry out the prostitution has allowed the creation of bonds during the field observations and conduct 12 in-depth interviews. The intelligibility of the phenomenon was made possible through the analysis of the interviews according to Silva e Silva's methodology (2016). The semantic networks of the discourses of mother’s women who practice the prostitution in the city of Ponta Grossa make it possible to affirm that despite the dichotomy between the figures of the mother and the prostitute rules, even in the imagination of the prostitutes themselves, this is the result of the hegemonic discourse. The simultaneous practices of mothering and commercial sexual activity developed by the women interviewed elucidate strategies of complementary and interdependent actions that fuse the maternal identity to the prostitute identify. Thus, they also evidence the constitution of a relational space in which the public and the private are not opposed and dichotomized.