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"Nossa Senhora da Help": sexo, turismo e deslocamento transnacional em Copacabana "Our Lady of Help": Sex, tourism and transnational movements in Copacabana
A anĂĄlise do turismo sexual e o trĂĄfico das mulheres tem concentrada na subjugação das mulheres, situando-as como passivas - objetos de cĂąmbio que sĂŁo "traficados" entre universos nacionais subordinados e dominantes. Todavia, como LĂ©vi-Strauss advĂ©m, as mulheres tambĂ©m sĂŁo geradoras de sĂmbolos. Baseando nossa anĂĄlise em trabalhos de campo feito entre turistas sexuais e prostitutas em Copacabana, buscamos demonstrar como a capacidade feminina de criar e manipular sĂmbolos potencializa o movimento internacional de brasileiras e de estrangeiros.<br>Analysis of sexual tourism has concentrated on the subjugation of women as devalued objects of exchange, trafficked between dominant and subordinate national universes. As LĂ©vi-Strauss points out, however, while often understood to be items of exchange, women are also symbol generators in their own right. It is this symbolic-generating capacity that strengthens the international movement of Brazilian women as sexualized objects of exchange. Basing our analysis on fieldwork among tourists and prostitutes in Copacabana, we seek to demonstrate how women's ability to manipulate symbols potentializes the international movement of Brazilian women and foreign men