Motherhood and Prostitution, Contradictory and Non-Inclusive?

Authors

  • Macarena Trujillo Cristoffanini Universidad de Playa Ancha Grupo de Investigación COPOLIS, Universidad de Barcelona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/%25x

Abstract

This paper presents a study that explored the experiences of motherhood in women who are involved in street prostitution. For this work, motherhood is focused as a socially constructed institution linked to prescriptive social imaginary and gender control policies; and, in turn, prostitution was understood as a patriarchal social institution where the associated stigma brands the experience of those women who exercise it. Based on the analysis of in-depth interviews conducted in Barcelona, the results show that the ‘maternal ideal’ lives with the stigma of prostitution, although not negatively internalized as they have develop strategies to manage motherhood within a ‘hidden life’; however, it is also envisaged that this management involves living often contradictory experiences in the exercise of prostitution.

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Author Biography

Macarena Trujillo Cristoffanini, Universidad de Playa Ancha Grupo de Investigación COPOLIS, Universidad de Barcelona

Socióloga nacida en Chile, Máster en género (UCM, España), doctoranda en Sociología (UB, España), Académica de la Universidad de Playa Ancha (Chile), integrante de la Comisión interdisciplinaria de Estudios de Género, CIEG de la Universidad de Playa Ancha e integrante del Grupo de investigación consolidado COPOLIS (UB) y de la red Internacional TIIFAMO. Sus principales líneas de investigación son teoría feminista, sociología del género, sociología de la maternidad, familias monomarentales

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Published

2017-02-10

How to Cite

Cristoffanini, M. T. (2017). Motherhood and Prostitution, Contradictory and Non-Inclusive?. Revista Estudos Feministas, 25(1), 167–185. https://doi.org/10.1590/%x

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 1 (2017)

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