Ser mulher na cidade: um estudo sobre a circulação das mulheres do Porto do Capim pela cidade de João Pessoa

Abstract

Starting from three women, residents of the community of Porto do Capim, located in the center of the city of João Pessoa, this study aims to make an ethnography of the female body circulation through the city. The written work was produced after a field methodology that sought to be present in the ways of these women, circulating with them in their spaces of occupation in the city, along with informal conversations and interviews. They are women with low purchasing power and therefore are forced to walk and / or work on the streets and to use public transportation to move around. Believing in circulation and flows as a source of power in the city, I propose to think of the city-making through the experiences and stories of these women, giving visibility to their urban experiences that sometimes increase when they are in the streets, creating affections and sensibility that are felt in their bodies, to understand these women's city. Understanding that the city has its subjectivities created through the flows of the subjects themselves, and that this also produces so many other subjectivities in these subjects in the city, I analyze here the relation body-city, as a constant exchange, in which one influences the other, in the construction of the corporations of these women. In this perspective, I make a research about the specificities of being women in public spaces, such as fears and insecurities that are felt daily in their female bodies, and how these women end up creating bodily habitus from these external experiences to remain minimally safe in their daily walk, from my point of view, by itself an act of daily resistance.