Notes on autonomy and social disqualification of women prostitutes

We present some psychosocial mechanisms that prevent the access of prostitutes to the established circuit of social recognition, analyzing the association of these mechanisms with experiences of coping and resistance to dynamics of social disqualification. The narratives of the interviewed prostitutes give us clues that their trajectories are built between subjection and resistance to subjection, heteronomy and affirmation of autonomy. The ambiguity of social dynamics allows them to question the destructive effects of subalternity and, as a result, they disseminate in the social fabric other knowledge about their living conditions.

Source: Psicologia e Sociedade - December 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research