Abstract

ALVAREZ CARDONA, Jenniffer Carolina et al. Ways of perceiving the body as a territory in women who practice prostitution. Investig. desarro. [online]. 2024, vol.32, n.1, pp.162-192.  Epub June 09, 2024. ISSN 0121-3261.  https://doi.org/10.14482/indes.32.01.200.563.

The article aims to describe the different ways of perceiving the body as territory in women who practice prostitution in the sector of La Veracruz in Medellín (Colombia) from their narratives. This corresponds to a qualitative study of a descriptive level framed in the hermeneutic interpretive paradigm and the classical phenomenological method. For the collection of information, a semi-structured interview and social cartography were used as techniques. The data was analyzed through a coding process that allowed the identification of emerging categories with the support of the Atlas Ti software. The results show that from the vision that women who practice prostitution have, it is possible to perceive the body as a space that is integrated by the emotional, the behavioral, the expressive and the experiential that recognizes itself as a territory that can be inhabited. and changing, that the historicity of this and the conflicts that go through it, allow it to be recognized as a tool of struggle, perseverance and interpretation.

Keywords : body; territory; prostitution; narrative; gender; woman.

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