Consumption of erotic objects by women: changing processes and contexts

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https://doi.org/10.5216/sec.v23i.52525

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mercados eróticos, objetos eróticos, sexualidades, gênero, consumo.

Abstract

The attempt in this paper is to analyze the content of the relations involved with the consumption and use of erotic objects by women, in the context of the erotic market and its selling practices. This content is a form of engagement that holds its subjectivity and intimacy, preserving its particularities in the construction of itself
referring the living experiences and their sexual diversities. The paper gathers its data from inquiring the possible decolonization in the construction and in women experience, from their sexualities and from the way in which they interact with the objects. Unlike the repressive past focused on family and on reproduction, in our times sexuality involves the market discourse, the right to pleasure and an agency of oneself, in a way that there is a knowledge production of new significations and of decolonization processes in the field of
sexuality. The analysis is grounded on participant observations in sex shops and in sensual boutiques, field journals and interviews with 10 women from Curitiba, Paraná.

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Author Biographies

Anelise Montañes Alcântara, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil

Graduada em Farmácia e Bioquímica (UEPG), mestra em Sociologia e doutora em Sociologia pela Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR).

Marlene Tamanini, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil

 Professora doutora do curso de graduação em ciências sociais e na pós graduação de sociologia da Universidade Federal do Paraná. Possui graduação em ciências sociais e políticas pela Fundação Escola de Sociologia Política de São Paulo (1992), mestrado em Sociologia Política pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (1997), Integrou o Curso de Aperfeiçoamento em Metodologia de Pesquisa em Gênero, Sexualidade e Saúde Reprodutiva no Programa em Gênero, Sexualidade e Saúde do Instituto de Medicina Social da UERJ/ Fiocruz/ Unicamp/ UFBa (1998/1999), doutorado em Programa Interdisciplinar em Ciências Humanas (DICH) pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2003). 

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Published

2020-05-18

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MONTAÑES ALCÂNTARA, A. .; TAMANINI, M. . Consumption of erotic objects by women: changing processes and contexts. Sociedade e Cultura, Goiânia, v. 23, 2020. DOI: 10.5216/sec.v23i.52525. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/fcs/article/view/52525. Acesso em: 22 dec. 2024.

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Vol. 23 (2020)

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