Mecanismos de gerência de identidades no comércio do sexo: uma análise a partir dos relatos das mulheres trabalhadoras de sexo na Baixa da Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

This study analyzes identity management mechanisms in women's commerce. sex workers, in the streets of “Bagamoyo e da Mesquita,” in downtown Maputo. The analysis is based on two perspectives: the first argues that sex workers tend to have a behavior that overlaps with other roles interfering in the most diverse spheres of life Social; The second argues that the identities linked to sexual commercialization are the result of a learning process in relation to the practice in the daily exercise. of these two analytical perspectives make us understand that the phenomenon of the sex trade is seen as a negative look. In this sense, the study sought to understand how sex workers in specific social spaces, manage their identities in the exercise of their activities that have developing in their daily lives and in their daily lives on the one hand; on the other, as yet these sex workers manage their other identities in the spaces of their homes or in their neighborhoods as well as in relation to other activities that have been developed in favor of society. From from the ethnographic results collected in this study, it is shown that women who exercise the his professional activities in Rua do Bagamoyo as well as in Rua da Mesquita are identified as sex traders from their forms of representation, that is, in terms of a set of clothing and products used at certain times of their sexual activities, from skirts and short shorts, high shoes, flip-flops, sneakers, use of makeup, lipsticks, wigs, extensions, creams and perfumes. These are devices that they activate in space to attract customers who they seek sexual pleasures and amusements in those streets. In the context of their residential areas, these women present themselves with other types of garments specifically capulanas, trousers, etc., so to carry out other activities in their homes, neighborhoods and beauty salons. So when they leave of their residences for sex work they take on other new identities and image in the space where the sex trade is actually practiced (TRADUÇAO NOSSA)