Femininities and transgressions in a revolving body: a post-structuralist analysis of scientific production about Pombagira
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This article results from a bibliography search conducted to analyze correlations presented at the discourse level, drawing from ethnographic studies and anthropological productions, including Pombagira, prostitution and the different forms of femininity in Umbanda. The first section of the article discusses the relation between the entity and the stereotype of the prostitute, identifications and the role that Pombagira plays in the life of women who are sex workers. The second section of the article addresses the image of the transgressive, independent woman who does not submit to men, as such image is tied to the entity, discussing how the entity confronts gender inequalities and their counter-sexual experiments, especially by means of her LGBT ‘children’. The third and last section deals with the discursive approximation between Pombagira and Exu, touching their ambiguities which blur gendered binarities. Lastly, it is considered indispensable that analyses about the entity Pombagira pay attention to countless possibilities of a duty towards minorities, thus avoiding epistemological and cisnormative suicides.Downloads
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