Ethnography on urban experiences of female sex workers

The objective is to analyze the urban experiences of women sex professionals working in the streets around the following axes: 1. commercialization of sex in the urban landscape, modes of use of the city and boundaries established by women; 2. experiences and affections lived in daily life; 3. work in the street - the urban space as an element of vulnerability and/or power. We are interested in approaching the experiences of work in the streets, from the perspective of gender and investigate the emergence of agencies that problematize the dynamics of subjecting women to hegemonic social constructions on the commercialization of sex. For this, we used the categories recommended by urban ethnography: piece, spot, path and circuit. It is considered that the diversity of practices of commercialization of sex and the vulnerabilities that emerge from the activity that occurs on the streets are fundamental elements of the city-gender relationship.