Narciso acha feio o que não é espelho?: discursos sobre a prostituição

Abstract

The work, enrolled in the tables of French Discourse Analysis (DA), attached to female prostitution from the device know-power Michel Foucault. It was observed that the discourses produced in our Western society about sexuality and therefore prostitution are linked to certain fields of knowledge, especially the legal. This recital, the issue that arises is: how power is exercised is instrumentalized, justified and reiterated by fields of knowledge? How discourses on prostitution come into a system repeatability, materialized in different text genres, forming a network interdiscursive? What are the practices that somehow determine the proper place of prostitution, in order of discourse, this while their own power? The research goal, then, is established in consideration of the medical-scientific discourse as a knowledge that promotes and / or building permits (effects) and the real truths regarding sexuality - and therefore prostitution - , implying an incisive exercise of power. Therefore, it is considered as the initial data of an academic thesis Medicine, the early twentieth century, as well as statements that lay between themselves and various interdiscursividades around the theme. It is based on the work Foucauldian concept of power-knowledge, in a sociological study of Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2002, 2003, 2006, 2008) reflect that allow prostitution opposite the so-called monoculture of knowledge, as well as in studies conducted by Abreu (2007) tangents to the construction of "woman" in Western society, and Indursky (2011), regarding the repeatability discursive. It is hoped, therefore, discuss the (illusory) transparency of language, reflect how the concepts are historical and implied in an order of discourse / power. Want up with this job, contribute to an understanding of how, in our Western societies, circulating discourses about prostitution.