Tempo Nº 9 Vol. 5 - Jul. 2000
Sumário
Dossiê:
História das Mulheres e das Relações de Gênero
Sueann Caulfield
Abstract
This article traces the conflictive history of public policies and police actions regarding prostitution in downtown Rio de Janeiro from the end of the nineteenth century until the 1940s. The major focus is on the constitution of a police-regulated prostitution district in Mangue, a poor neighborhood adjacent to the city’s center. Brazilian law never officially sanctioned state regulation of prostitution, but municipal law granted police broad “discretionary powers” to act in defense of public morality, specifically by controlling prostitution. Police attempts to exert this power, however, met with resistance from prostitutes as well as from a variety of legal and medical authorities. Although police implemented various registration and zoning policies, beginning in the nineteenth century, they were not able to effectively enforce these measures in Mangue until the dictatorial regime of Getúlio Vargas took power in the late 1930s.
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