Abstract
The imaginary of female beauty and sexuality is still present within the tourism sector. However, when placing Brazilian women at the center of this imagery, it appears that there is a silencing process of this subject, making it impossible for them to represent themselves. Such silencing is seen by post-colonial authors, particularly Gayatri Spivak, as a double subordination of that subject: by patriarchy and colonialism. The present study, therefore, sought to analyze, through Spivak's post-colonial theory, how Brazilian women, in a context of tourism in the Global North, are subordinated by foreigners. For this, 14 in-depth interviews were conducted with Brazilian women, who traveled to such countries. The analysis shows three distinct ways in which foreigners responded to the interviewees after discovering their nationalities, in addition to discussing how subordination to such women occurs through unreal representations of the Brazilian female figure; the psychological and physical violence suffered by them while abroad; and the Brazilian male figure as savior against foreigners. We conclude that there is no space for the interviewees to be women in the Eurocentric sense of what a woman is, as their nationality places them in a position of inferiority and objectification.
Keywords
Spivak; Feminine subalternization; Tourism