Relações de gênero e sexualidade: um estudo sobre o processo de feminização da Aids

Abstract

This work discusses the feminization process of AIDS in the city of Claros, Minas Gerais Montes and check the playback discriminatory models of a society with remarkable and deep androcentric features that tends to sublimate and elevate man as the center of all discussions. As for methodology, we chose the combination of quantitative and qualitative research, the aim of combining these techniques is the analysis of representations of women in history, made explicit by authors who endorse this theme, in which you can see the reproduction of a sexist society in which man is exalted in the face of social, emotional and sexual relationships. In it, distinctions are made between male and female not only in the physical-biological aspect, but mostly from biased questions socially constructed. secondary surveys were conducted on the AIDS phenomenon. In the qualitative part will be focus groups. Preliminary data indicate growth in the number of women infected with HIV since its historic character of submission and dependence by the male figure prevents or induces not use preventive methods. In this context, the relationships that these women have with their partners are relationships in which man exercises full power forward to sexuality and affectivity of both. Women are sent to a secondary role in the history of humanity, the fact still very present today, which tends to interfere accurately the spread of HIV virus by this group, given the barriers and / or taboos imposed by that company macho character.