Inhalt: Healthcare has long been a gendered enterprise, with women taking responsibility for maintaining health and engaging with service providers. Universal healthcare provision notwithstanding, women nonetheless undertake a range of healthcare work, on their own account and on behalf of others, which remains largely invisible. As part of a multi-method comparative European study that looked at access to healthcare in diverse neighbourhoods from the point of view of people's own health priorities, the concept of "healthcare bricolage" describes the process of mobilizing resources and overcoming constraints to meet particular health needs. Bricolage mediates between different kinds of resources to meet particular challenges and describing these processes makes visible that work which has been unseen, over-looked and naturalised, as part of a gendered caring role. Drawing on 160 semi-structured interviews and a survey with 1,755 residents of highly diverse neighbourhoods in Germany, UK, Sweden and Portugal, this article illustrates the gendered nature of healthcare bricolage. The complex variations of women's bricolage within and beyond the public healthcare system show how gendered caring roles intersect with migration status and social class in the context of particular healthcare systems.
Aids as a disease of the others: an analysis of women's vulnerability
Titelübersetzung:Aids como doença do outro: uma análise da vulnerabilidade feminina
Autor/in:
Silva, Carla Marins; Vargens, Octavio Miniz da Costa
Quelle: Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 7 (2015) 4, S 3125-3134
Inhalt: Objective: To describe the women's perception in a stable relationship, about the female vulnerability to acquire Aids. Method: Descriptive, qualitative research accomplished in 2008 in a University Campus in Rio de Janeiro. Interviews were carried out with 15 women, who declare themselves as in a stable relationship, of different educational levels, ethnic origins and religions. The study complied with the requirements of the National Research Ethics Committee. For data analysis was used the content analysis. Results: The interviewees considerated women in stable relationship vulnerable when trusting the partner, for not using preservative and for the lack of information. Taboos and shame were showed as obstacles for prevention. Conclusion: It was evidenced that the interviewees recognize the other women as vulnerable since they exclude themselves from vulnerable groups. One of the challenges for AIDS prevention is to revert this low perception related to risk of these women.
Being a woman and having an injured body: a study of social representations
Autor/in:
Alves, Raiana Marinho; Carvalho, Evanilda Souza de Santana; Oliveira, Jeane Freitas de; Araújo, Edna Maria de
Quelle: Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 6 (2014) 4, S 1513-1524
Inhalt: Objective: To discuss the social representations of women with chronic wounds about being a woman and having a body injured and the implications of these representations on social relations. Methods: Qualitative research with women with chronic wounds, attended at health units in Bahia who answered the interview in depth and draft-story theme. The data were submitted to thematic content analysis. Results: Representations about being a woman and having a wounded body are centered on ideas and experiences that reveal stigma, pain, sadness, loneliness, irritation, dependence, and the need to approach God. Conclusion: The representations of the participants interfere in the way of dressing, of relating to oneself and to the people in their surroundings implying in isolation and solitude. Representations reproduce stigmas about body image that do not meet socially and culturally determined beauty and health criteria.
Schlagwörter:woman; Schönheit; beauty; Körperbild; body image; Identität; identity; gender; Gesundheit; health; chronische Krankheit; chronic illness; Krankenpflege; nursing; Pflege; caregiving; soziale Isolation; social isolation; Einsamkeit; solitude; psychische Faktoren; psychological factors; Brasilien; Brazil; Lateinamerika; Latin America; Südamerika; South America
SSOAR Kategorie:Medizinsoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sozialpsychologie
Sexuality for the ostomized woman: contribution to nursing care
Titelübersetzung:A sexualidade para a mulher estomizada: contribuição para a assistência da enfermagem
Autor/in:
Sousa, Alvaro Francisco Lopes de; Queiroz, Artur Acelino Francisco Luz Nunes; Mourão, Luana Feitosa; Oliveira, Layze Braz de; Marques, Antonio Dean Barbosa; Nascimento, Leidinar Cardoso
Quelle: Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 5 (2013) 6, S 74-81
Inhalt: Objective: To know the meaning assigned to sexuality for stomized women. Method: this is a qualitative study from the perspective of an oral history of life. a total of 10 women enrolled in the lineu araújo integrated health center in teresina-pi, in june 2012. Results: four categories emerged: the meaning of sexuality, the meaning of the experience of sexuality, the meaning of spousal support in the process of acceptance of the stoma and the meaning of being a woman and living with the stoma. sexuality has a plurality of meanings, which in turn are connected to various factors. Conclusion: through knowledge, we could complete and implement care actions that influenced the quality of life and assistance given to the stomized women.
Schlagwörter:woman; Sexualität; sexuality; gender; Pflege; caregiving; Brasilien; Brazil; Lateinamerika; Latin America; Südamerika; South America; Lebensqualität; quality of life; Stoma
SSOAR Kategorie:Medizinsoziologie, Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
The experience of breast cancer under the perception of women who underwent mastectomy: an analysis held from scientific publications
Titelübersetzung:A vivência do câncer de mama na percepção de mulheres submetidas à mastectomia: uma análise a partir de publicações científicas
Autor/in:
Marinho, Diana da Silva; Costa, Thatiane Pinheiro; Vargens, Octavio Muniz da Costa
Quelle: Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 5 (2013) 5, S 8-19
Inhalt: Objective: to analyze, based on Systematic Literature Review, the perception of women who underwent mastectomy due to breast cancer about their relationship with their social group. Method: it is a descriptive study, which is classified as a Systematic Literature Review, performed in 2010, in which the following steps were conducted: the protocol construction; the definition of the guiding question of the study; the search for studies; the selection of studies; the critical assessment of studies; and the synthesis of data. Ultimately, we have selected 15 papers. Results: in most of the families, due to the situation of the mastectomy, it was verified a great union among the family members and, consequently, a better confrontation of the situation. Nevertheless, it was also verified the existence of family disaggregation, withdrawal of friends, sexual partner or of the woman itself, since there are no understanding and comprehension of the problem. Conclusion: The research has revealed that the dialogue among people who are significant for the woman contributes in the treatment and in the perception about the lived experience.
Körper und Geschlecht im medizinischen Kontext: das Beispiel Brustkrebs
Titelübersetzung:Body and gender from a medical context: the example of breast cancer
Autor/in:
Reuter, Julia
Quelle: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS); Rehberg, Karl-Siegbert; Kongress "Die Natur der Gesellschaft"; Frankfurt am Main, 2008. S 4158-4170
Inhalt: "Aktuelle Arbeiten der gender und science studies attackieren die 'moderne' dualistische Unterscheidung zwischen Natur und Kultur. Ihr Hauptkritikpunkt richtet sich gegen die Konzipierung der Moderne als ein Projekt wissenschaftlich-technische Rationalität, das zwischen politischer und epistemologischer Repräsentation, zwischen Kultur und Natur strikt trennt, gemäß der Vorstellung von Kultur als Ergebnis immanenter zeitlich und räumlich gebundener Verhandlungen und Konstruktionsleistungen und Natur als transzendenter Bereich von Universalität, Fakten und Wahrheit. Stattdessen wird auf die 'Bruchstellen' und 'unbeabsichtigten Nebenfolgen' dieser Unterscheidung verwiesen, mit dem Ziel, die vielfältigen Phänomene und Verschränkungen zwischen Natur und Kultur aufzuzeigen und sie gleichzeitig theoretisch wie theoriewissenschaftlich neu zu rahmen. Ausgehend von Bruno Latours und Michel Callons Actor-Network Theory und Donna Haraways 'Cyborg-Mythos' fokussiert der Beitrag die (Neu-)Konzeption von Natur und Kultur im Kontext poststrukturalistischer Theorien. Während im ersten Teil theoretische Überlegungen im Vordergrund stehen, sollen daran anschließend auch Beispiele von Natur-Kultur-Konstruktionen aus der Forschungspraxis und daraus resultierende Probleme diskutiert werden. Als Grundlage dienen hierbei erste Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojekts zu Körper- und Geschlechtsrollenerfahrungen brustkrebserkrankter Frauen, das die Problematik einer rigiden Natur-Kultur-Unterscheidung im Kontext der Medizin aus Sicht der Betroffenen thematisiert und Ansätze einer personalen wie gesellschaftspolitischen Neuordnung aufzeigt." (Autorenreferat)