“Ouro Negro”: gênero, trabalho e prostituição em Candeias/BA (1960-1985)

Abstract

From a feminist and interdisciplinary approach , this dissertation aims to grasp gender representations and the connections between the world of work oil and prostitution between 1960/1985 , at Candeias / BA. During thisperiod the city went throught socioeconomic , urban and political changes with the installation of the first oil industry in Brazil, the Mataripe / Landulpho Alves Refinery in their vicinity, and new social actors migrated to the region , prostitutes and industry workers , providing new ways of thinking / represent masculinity and femininity and spaces of pleasure , power, and social mobility . The documentary corpus, where the readings were made with theoretical support of gender and feminist studies, consists of oral , written and iconographic sources. Thus, to contact with the complexity and dynamism of the context where the object of our study was nested we used methods of qualitative nature as oral history and document analysis .