Banca de DEFESA: Daliana Cristina de Lima Antonio

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : Daliana Cristina de Lima Antonio
DATE: 29/08/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NGFiM2FjMWUtMTM0YS00YzcyLWI5NTUtMzNmYjcyZGU1N
TITLE:

Mastectomized bodies: reconstructions of femininity

KEY WORDS:

Breast Cancer; Mastectomy; Femininity; Gender;

PAGES: 200
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUMMARY:

The research investigated the self-attributed representations of femininity by 10 cis women interviewed about their experiences with breast cancer, particularly with regard to the surgical procedure of breast reconstruction. The collaborators shared their illness experience, going through the trajectory about the care of the self, the incorporation of preventive practices, from diagnosis to treatment, and the implications of mastectomy, when such a procedure is indicated, on body image. The reports contributed to an interpretation of femininity associated with self-esteem, motherhood, sexuality and institutional relationships. It was possible to understand reconstructions of femininity in experiences with the medical field and the support and protection network, implied in a set of interpellations, hegemonically constitutive of a "pink culture", with effects on self-identification as oncological patients, care of the self and body perceptions. Thus, femininity is crossed in such a way as to characterize a permanent struggle for healing, in the "battle" for survival, followed by protocol exams, and in the embodiment of other meanings of the breasts according to guaranteed aesthetic procedures. Hence, femininity as a social suffering. If there is a hegemonic representation given the orientation of a surgical intervention with a silicone implant, breast reconstruction will not mean the guarantee of femininity, as expressed in the legislation, but a state of soul, expressing a process of constitutive embodiment of a new body scheme. A somatic culture in this context of breast cancer expresses other femininities about the visibility of a body without breasts. Therefore, the recognition of the inequalities produced contributes to a debate on esteem and morality in order to combat gender effects that constrain women to sometimes disguise a body without breasts, either with external prostheses, or to feel obliged to accept the risks of reconstructive surgical procedures with implants.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - WALESKA AURELIANO - UERJ
Externa ao Programa - 1353202 - DULCE MARIA FILGUEIRA DE ALMEIDA - nullExterna à Instituição - MARCELA CARVALHO MARTINS AMARAL - UFG
Presidente - 2079994 - TANIA MARA CAMPOS DE ALMEIDA