HISTORY OF GIRLS VERY “FOGOSAS” AND “SABIDAS”: POOR GIRL’S SEXUALITY

Abstract

This article will try, in a partial and provisional way, to describe and explain the unusual and dynamic universe of the sexual and affective practices of young people, men and women, belonging to the popular segments of Feira de Santana, a city in the interior of Bahia, between the 1940s and 1960. To do so, we will base our reflections on the analysis of some criminal processes of the seduction typology, carrying out the study of certain cases, but without losing sight of the continuous connection between the macro and micro scales, that is, without ignore the whole societal call. In addition, we operate from the intersections between class, race, age/generation, space and gender to better understand respectability strategies that were triggered mainly by poor girls, many of whom are black, to make themselves positive in the seduction processes. . In addition, we found that life stages such as childhood, youth and adulthood are not unambiguous and, therefore, were re-signified in different ways throughout the research and, although the biological reference was a rule, cultural issues demarcated its limits. From this follows the fact that what we might today call an adolescent or even a child was seen as an adult during the period studied because they supposedly had sexual relations.