Produção do corpo e da cidade: um estudo sobre os espaços sociais e simbólicos da prostituição feminina em Montes Claros/MG

Abstract

This study aims to examine the process of construction and its relationship with the concepts of territory and territoriality, especially with regard to the spatial organization of female prostitution. Whereas there are many factors of the economic order, and social policy, which intervenes in the process of consolidation of a territory, elected the city of Montes Claros in the period of 1940 to 1970, accordingly to the achievement of the research, a survey was conducted on the issues above bibliographic as well as consultations with newspapers and documents of the city published in 1925 until 1959. Also, we had a survey of data guided in the conduct of interviews with women and men who lived in the period studied, in order to understand the interpretations that are both subjects of his stories, about the processes that ordered the places of prostitution in Montes Claros. The main conclusion is that there are various social relations, which ultimately generate, or at least intensified, conflicts, contributing to the existence of a constant (re)planning areas of social and symbolic. n the case study, this process produced with the transfer of the territory of prostitution from the centre to the periphery.