Prostitution of cisgender women in Maceió: press, biopower and gender resistance in the city (1970-1980)

prostitution; press; bioplitica.

The present work entitled "Prostitution of cisgender women in Maceió: press, biopower and gender resistance in the city (1970-1980)", analyzes the practice of prostitution of cisgender women in Maceió, capital of Alagoas, between the 1970s and 1980s , based on discourses produced by the printed press, especially the newspapers Gazeta de Alagoas and Jornal de Alagoas in the 1970s and 1980s. enunciations, of a classist and racist cisheteronormative discursive logic that produced stigma on women's gender and sexuality, in order to legitimize state actions of control over female bodies, that is, as a technology for managing bodies and the city, which Michel Foucault (2020) called it biopower.