Abstract

JEHA, Silvana. Beatriz. Resistance, violence and courage against society and State. Rio de Janeiro, 1919-1948. Rev. Epos [online]. 2015, vol.6, n.2, pp. 155-178. ISSN 2178-700X.

This article summarize the path of Beatriz Barbosa, a migrant from Alagoas to Rio de Janeiro, where she worked mostly as a prostitute, between 1919 and 1948. The slut stigma, the term that encapsulated all of her transgressions and mischiefs (and of thousands of brazilians that shared the same destiny), drove her to a spiral of detentions, criminal charges, homeless asylums and mental hospital internment. Through the research of tens of news articles written abour Beatriz at her time and criminal and clinical records we can see a trasngressive persona emerge. Along the more than 30 years of her historical tracks is possible to historicize the scope of disciplinary institutions that she was subjected and to reflect on the meanings of her resistance, courage and violence against her permanent conditon of unwanted.

Keywords : prostitution; biography; disciplinary institutions; Rio de Janeiro; 20th century.

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