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ILLUSTRATIONS ABOUT PROSTITUTION IN PERIODICALS FROM RIO DE JANEIRO (1910-1935)

Abstract

In the last decades, the daily life of the excluded has turned history upside down along with gender studies, both constituting a privileged space for the formation of new problematics. That said, the main hypothesis put forward by this article aims to work with 24 illustrations, published by newspapers in Rio de Janeiro regarding a topic shortly discussed in consensus with other topics, which was female prostitution. Thus, this article aims to dialogue with the historiography on the subject and understand the context in which these images were published, sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, addressing issues such as the location of prostitution and trafficking of white women. Taking the Rio de Janeiro city as a spatial cut, the collected documentation was published between the years 1910 and 1935, a moment of constant manifestation of the press in relation to the maintenance of order.