Arqueología del Cuerpo: Significados y Narrativas en Torno a la Mujer Madura y Trabajadora Sexual

Abstract

The objective of the present research was to analyze how dominant discourses have an impact on the emerging narratives of old mothers and sex workers and an old man father of a family, all of them located in the city of Bogota. Thus, the research finds an authentic space for dialogue between knowledge and experiences around being a woman and social constructionism, conceiving the phenomenon of study under the proposal of Gergen (1996) who conceived that reality is a collective tissue in constant transmutation, this being the result of the interaction and negotiation of meanings between individuals in a particular historical-cultural context.

Therefore, a qualitative methodology is used through a narrative design and the use of discourse analysis matrices, all of which enabled the critical interpretation of the narratives of two older mothers, sex workers and a father of family. Through in-depth interviews and intuitive writing exercises, both with a mythical orientation that in turn give an account of some of the rites that permeate Western societies.

The results show how the introjection of archetypal figures present in ancient and modern myths, leave their spores in the dominant discourses that are recreated and personified in everyday life, which represents a crucial element when signifying the experiences, the self and the other, which is reflected, not only in the narratives but also in the corporeality of the individuals. Consequently, the root or personal meaning of what this enigma called woman is is sought, under the plural dimensionality of its facets, with the aim of making new understandings visible and enabling an integrative and non-homogenizing vision of the present phenomenon of study.