Ethnography from the social uses of the call girl’s body

Abstract

The present text intends to present, through an ethnographic narrative, how call girl’s Body is used during social interaction with clients in routine situations within a Brazilian cabaret. Based on anth-ropological theoretical references, it analyzes how these women build their everyday relations in an environment of prostitution, aiming specifically on the social uses of their own bodies. This text in-tends to contribute to the studies on corporality, social interaction, gender, and sociability in describ-ing the main events on this network. The discussion, which is presented here in a condensed form, can be considered a frame for other categories of analysis that were investigated and discussed in the book of author: “Nights of Cabaret: female prostitution, gender and sociability on a prostitution area.”

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