광주 대인동 ‘집창촌’의 ‘매춘’ 지리학 -집창촌에서 ‘매춘여성’의 ‘포함적 배제’-

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the dominant sexual discourse through mapping of the red-light districts, and is to analyze how the red-light districts become liminal space where a prostitute' body become the subject of 'exclusion/inclusion.' The red-light districts are being functioned with a method of being included by being excluded as space for normalizing patriarchal heterosexual relationship, not being excluded simply with being targeted intensively by the Anti-Prostitution Law. This paper is based on an empirical study of the 'red-light district' in Daein-dong, Gwangju which is the only area where prostitutes reside in the city. This area shows an acute contrast in landscapes by day and night. While during the daytime sexual transactions don't take place, this is a place of consumption mainly for the middle class that deals with department stores and financial institutions. On the other hand, during the night time when sexual transactions take place, this space is occupied by sexual dealers, thereby disturbing the rules of a public place. In particular, the high percentage of 'Street prostitution' among total sexual transactions reinforces characteristics of Daein-dong as liminal space of disturbing a normal sexual standard. This paper argues that these spatial characteristics of red-light districts of Daein-dong are leading prostitutes' life, which can be called as a bare life, to be placed on the edge an existence of standing on the flexible and fragmentary boundaries.