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We value your privacy. Download citation. Request full-text. A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors , clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more. Lilith Kraushaar. The classifications of the prostitute bodies by exclusion's operations, in specific historical moments, question the imaginary and the meanings of these classifications, and the mechanisms used to distinguish the prostitutional body.
We analyzed here some media pictures of two police cases of murdered women: "the woman of black boots" of Calama in and "the sunken woman" of Antofagasta in , both in Northern Chile. The public exhibition of these bodies show the convergence of speeches of sexuality, violence and desire, the gender and class relations inscribed on the "prostitute" figure, and the re-signification of these women as popular saints in those mining cities.
Citations 0. References 2. This research hasn't been cited in any other publications. Name, death and canonization of a prostitute. Writings and cult of botitas Negras. Sep In this paper we analyze different forms of re-inscription of the murdered prostitute body of Irene Iturra Saez, in the Chilean city of Calama in September The writings that proliferate around to whom is known today as Botitas Negras, are constitutive of key dimensions to understand the singularity of the character and forms of popular devotion that leads to her canonization.
