She holds a degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo (1988), a Masters in Anthropology from the University of São Paulo (1995) and a PhD in Social Sciences from the State University of Campinas (2001). She is currently associate professor at the University of São Paulo, and was the coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology, and coordinated the USP Diversity program. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Association of Anthropology in the period of 2013-2014, and a member of the Gender and Sexuality Committee of the same association. She has experience in Anthropology, with emphasis on Urban Anthropology and Social Markers of Difference, working mainly in the following subjects: gender, media, social markers of difference, family, body, gender violence. She is part of the Network Nao Cala - Network of professors for ending sexual and gender violence at USP. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This project aims to understand the public construction of categories of sexual and gender violence which are in the process of transformation or constitution. Specifically, it reflects on the demand for recognition of relatively new notions of rape and sexual harassment that have been in formation or transformation in the public arena in recent years in Brazil, with an emphasis on the me…
This research analyses the entry of digital platforms in the Brazilian sex markets, questioning how they act as ordering agents of the online sex and erotic trade. It has two central aims: a) analyzing platforms' role in the Brazilian sex and erotic trade and their consequences to the organization and management of sex work; b) examining the conventions and stratifications by axes of diff…
This project seeks to analyze the formation of athletes in women's soccer based on exchanges with players who work and acted as professionals and the monitoring of activities with the "Oficial Meninas em Campo" NGO. The objective is, therefore, to understand the way in which the difficulties and prejudices of gender, race, sexuality, and class are understood as part of soccer formation, h…
This research aims to reflect on the uses and social effects of the period tracking application called "Clue". This smartphone technology extracts data about menstrual cycles, enabling people to predict their fertile window and future periods. This work articulates gender, body and technology, around issues of: i) how the menstruapp comprehends the body and how this affects people who hav…
With an ethnographic approach, this research project aims to understand practices and discourses stemming from two elements: (1) how a Civil Society Organization (CSO) devoted to rescuing women in situation of prostitution, in Parque da Luz downtown São Paulo,constructs and undertakes its assistance actions and abolitionist discourses about prostitution;(2) in which way women who work as …
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This project is a development of the postdoctoral research project funded by Fapesp (Project number: 2015/26671-4). Its central objective is to understand the ways in which the term violence gains meaning among Rio de Janeiro slum dwellers. I use the word Complex to name these places for ethical and security reasons. The idea is to take into account the intersection of social markers of d…
This project aims to understand the public construction of categories of sexual and gender violence, categories that are in process of transformation or constitution. Specifically, it reflects on the demand for recognition of new notions of rape and sexual harassment that are being constituted in the public arena in recent years, with an emphasis on the media - both hegemonic and alternat…
This research aims to reflect on the discussions about "revenge porn": improper disclosure of intimate and/or erotic content. I propose to follow how the category has been defined in different contexts in which it is deployed; scrutinizing the symbolic disputes at stake in its construction and in attempts to turn "revenge porn" into a new facet of violence against women, as well as a crim…
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