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Trabalho do sexo pode ser definido de várias maneiras. Pode ser considerado um contrato em que serviços sexuais são negociados consensualmente. Geralmente realizado por mulheres. A relação entre elas e os clientes (geralmente homens) vai basear as discussões feministas sobre o trabalho do sexo. Entretanto, há tensões e divergências fundamentais entre feministas.
Essa investigação qualitativa teve como objetivo dar espaço de fala e escuta de histórias de vida de quatro trabalhadoras do sexo em Luanda e fornecer contributos para discussões feministas sobre o trabalho do sexo. Seus contributos são descritos em 23 temas. Seus posicionamentos se alinham mais com o entendimento do trabalho do sexo como trabalho, ainda que complexo.
Suas histórias são marcadas por idas e vindas de quebras com e adesão a papéis de gênero mais tradicionais. A necessidade econômica surge como a razão de entrada, retorno e permanência no trabalho do sexo, principalmente para prover para suas famílias. Elas solicitam apoio para sair do trabalho do sexo, embora destaquem que essa decisão é delas. Esse apoio poderia tomar forma de programas de enfrentamento à pobreza (transferência de renda), de apoio às trabalhadoras do sexo e descriminalização
do trabalho do sexo.
As histórias das trabalhadoras do sexo chamam a atenção para se pensar o feminismo como um espectro que vai desde uma resistência à desigualdade de gênero no âmbito individual até a militância em espaços políticos de mudança de estruturas sociais baseadas em desigualdades de gênero.
Sex work has been defined in many forms. One definition is as a contract in which sexual services are negotiated by a sex worker and a client in a consensual manner. Typically, sex workers are women and the clients, men. Their relationship prompts feminist discussions on what constitutes sex work. However, there are tensions and fundamental disagreements amongst feminists. This qualitative study aims to provide space of active listening to the life stories of four sex workers in Luanda, and contribute to the feminist discussions on sex work. Their contribution is detailed in 23 topics. The sex workers’ perceptions are consistent with the understanding that sex work is work, albeit a complex form of work. Participants’ life stories are marked by both adherence with and defiance to traditional gender roles. Economic necessity drives them to enter, return to and stay in sex work, especially to provide for their families. Sex workers demand support to leave sex work, although they stress that this is their decision alone. This support could take the form of programs to reduce poverty (such as income transfer programs), and other forms of direct support to sex workers and decriminalisation of sex work. The life stories of the sex workers call for a feminism envisioned as a spectrum between individual resistance to gender inequalities to militancy in the political sphere aiming changes in social structures based on gender inequalities.
Sex work has been defined in many forms. One definition is as a contract in which sexual services are negotiated by a sex worker and a client in a consensual manner. Typically, sex workers are women and the clients, men. Their relationship prompts feminist discussions on what constitutes sex work. However, there are tensions and fundamental disagreements amongst feminists. This qualitative study aims to provide space of active listening to the life stories of four sex workers in Luanda, and contribute to the feminist discussions on sex work. Their contribution is detailed in 23 topics. The sex workers’ perceptions are consistent with the understanding that sex work is work, albeit a complex form of work. Participants’ life stories are marked by both adherence with and defiance to traditional gender roles. Economic necessity drives them to enter, return to and stay in sex work, especially to provide for their families. Sex workers demand support to leave sex work, although they stress that this is their decision alone. This support could take the form of programs to reduce poverty (such as income transfer programs), and other forms of direct support to sex workers and decriminalisation of sex work. The life stories of the sex workers call for a feminism envisioned as a spectrum between individual resistance to gender inequalities to militancy in the political sphere aiming changes in social structures based on gender inequalities.
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Trabalho do sexo Trabalhadoras do sexo Feminismo África Angola Sex work sex workers Feminism
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Egg, Rafaela Nascimento - Narrativas de trabalhadoras do sexo em Luanda [Em linha]: contributos para discussões feministas sobre o trabalho do sexo. [S.l.]: [s.n.], 2023. 108 p.