'Meu Corpo Igual': Black Women, Power, and the Defence of Choice in the Putafeminista Movement in Brazil

我的博士学位将重新思考卖淫和女权主义在全球北方学术研究中的不兼容性，通过探索巴西的“选择女权主义”来修改选择女权主义的分析概念。选择女权主义宣称，女性通过自己做出的积极选择获得了权力，这是巴西女性主义者的一个关键信条。对巴西形式的性别平等主义的关注不仅通过全球南方视角提供了更广泛的选择女权主义概念，而且使一个更具包容性的框架能够批判性地与巴西充满活力的lgbtqia +激进主义、种族性奴役的殖民遗产以及普遍存在的系统性种族主义相结合，这些种族主义加深了在获得医疗、教育和创收机会方面的差距。自20世纪60年代末和第二波女权主义在全球北方开始以来，学者们就女权主义与卖淫的兼容性问题产生了分歧。例如，社会学家朱莉娅·奥康奈尔·戴维森和哲学家卡罗尔·帕特曼无法将卖淫与赋权女权主义行动协调起来，并认为这一定是由于缺乏替代选择或强迫（戴维森：1998；帕特曼：1983）。相比之下，其他学者认为性工作者可以是自由选择卖淫的积极决策者（Ericsson: 1980; Simmons: 2018）。对卖淫的史学研究探讨了不同历史背景下围绕性工作的强迫、同意和道德恐慌的争论（Wyers: 2017）。Blanchette和Silva研究了女权主义意识形态的历史轨迹，对该运动的新兴学术研究起到了重要的指导作用（Blanchette和Silva: 2018）。通过将女性主义的意识形态与更广泛的史学和概念研究相结合，我将对女性主义的卖淫哲学进行历史分析，从而将该运动引入更广泛的概念辩论，并对跨学科使用的重要分析工具进行修订。全球南方的声音是推动更包容地理解卖淫和女权主义的关键，迄今为止，这主要是在全球北方产生的。

My PhD will rethink the incompatibility of prostitution and feminism embedded in Global Northacademic scholarship by revising the analytical concept of choice feminism through an explorationof Brazilian putafeminismo. Choice feminism declares women are empowered through the activechoices they make, a key tenet for Brazilian putafeministas. A focus on Brazilian forms ofputafeminismo not only offers broader conceptualisations of choice feminism through Global Southperspectives but enables a more inclusive framework that critically engages with Brazil's vibrantLGBTQIA+ activism, colonial legacies of racial sexual slavery, and pervasive systematic racism thatdeepen disparities in access to healthcare, education, and income-generating opportunities.Since the late 1960s and the start of second-wave feminism in the Global North, scholars have beendivided over the compatibility of feminism with prostitution. Sociologist Julia O'Connell Davidsonand philosopher Carole Pateman, for example, cannot reconcile prostitution with empoweredfeminist action and argue it must be due to a lack of alternative options or coercion (Davidson:1998; Pateman: 1983). Contrastingly, other scholars recognise sex workers can be active decisionmakers who freely choose prostitution (Ericsson: 1980; Simmons: 2018). Historiographicaltreatments of prostitution have explored these debates on coercion, consent, and moral panicssurrounding sex work in various historical contexts (Wyers: 2017). Blanchette and Silva's workexamining the historical trajectory of putafeminismo's ideologies has been formative in directingnascent scholarship on the movement (Blanchette and Silva: 2018). By blending the ideologies ofputafeminismo with broader historiographical and conceptual research, I will historiciseputafeminismo's philosophies of prostitution in ways that draws the movement into wider conceptual debates and enables a revision of vital analytical tools used across different disciplines.Global South voices are key to driving more inclusive understandings of prostitution and feminism,which to date have been produced predominantly in the Global North.