Expressões das violências de gênero no cotidiano de terapeutas ocupacionais no campo da saúde
Abstract
The patriarchal social structure produces modes of subjectivation that reduce women's possibilities
of choice and sustain individual and collective violence in everyday life. This research starts from
the Keleman idea of “bodies/experiences”, as a vital motion to exist, comprising the Occupational
Therapy-body, a predominantly female profession, to portray the gender violence experienced by
occupational therapists. The objective was to understand the perceptions of women occupational
therapists, working in health services, about gender violence in their everyday lives, utilizing the
methodological framework of cartography and theoretical assumptions from feminist
epistemologies. Sixty-seven responses from occupational therapists were analyzed among 1018
respondents to a remote questionnaire produced by the Adelaides collective in a research on
experiences of gender violence in Brazil experienced by women in the field of Public Health. The
questionnaire was organized in five sections (socioeconomic data; professional and academic
experience; social engagement and political activism; experiences involving sexism and violence;
maternity) with narrative and multiple choice questions. Numerical data were analyzed using
simple statistics and qualitative data using the analytical technique of translating the narratives,
which involves the analysis of what can be commonly perceived in a set of signs, symbols,
practices, and processes situated in the experiences. The results indicate that 91% of the
participants suffered some violence for being a woman in their home, study, work and/or public
environments. The coping strategies used were organized into five actions: training, researching,
politicizing, disrupting and caring. We conclude that everyday life presents itself as a potential
means of expressions, visible or invisible, of human action, whether violent or denunciation
actions, assuming aspects of reproduction or transformation of established relationships, such as
those embedded in the culture of violence to which women are submitted.
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