Esterilização feminina: liberdade e opressão

Barroso, Carmen

doi:10.1590/s0034-89101984000200009

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“…De fato, quase dez anos antes, Barroso (1984) já advertia que determinantes específicos, tais como a estrutura do atendimento hospitalar e a ausência de políticas públicas que fizessem face à crescente demanda por contracepção moderna, levavam as mulheres a elegerem a laqueadura tubária como método de preferência.…”

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Esterilização cirúrgica feminina no Brasil, 2000 a 2006: aderência à lei de planejamento familiar e demanda frustrada¹

Caetano

2014

Rev. bras. estud. popul.

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Esterilização cirúrgica feminina no Brasil, 2000 a 2006: aderência à lei de planejamento familiar e demanda frustrada¹

Caetano

2014

Rev. bras. estud. popul.

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“…New technologies and changing values that permeated the birth control process (Back apud Vieira, 2003) are identified, for example, in the development of techniques for surgical sterilization -"extreme of the contraception medicalization aspect" (Vieira, 2003, p. 62). Thus, if then sterilization occurred with eugenic purposes, it is now a voluntary choice, solution for the fertility control, legitimized by the medicine and funded by the government (Vieira, 2003;Barroso, 1984).…”

Section: Birth Control Of and Reduction Of Poverty: Neoliberal Discoumentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Brazil, the fertility rate has remained virtually constant from 1930 until 1965, when it began to decline. The total fertility rate (TFT) dropped from 5.8 children in 1970 (Ipea, 1996) After 1970, an increase on the use of contraceptives, practice of abortion and sterilization was evidenced (Berquó, 1982;Barroso, 1984), with regional differences: sterilization was relatively more important in the Northeastern Brazil than in the state of Sao Paulo, with more expansion between women with lower education levels (Rodrigues et al, 1979(Rodrigues et al, , 1980Nakamura & Fonseca, 1978).…”

Section: Birth Control Of and Reduction Of Poverty: Neoliberal Discoumentioning

confidence: 99%

Naturalização e medicalização do corpo feminino: o controle social por meio da reprodução

Costa

Stotz

Grynszpan³

et al. 2006

Interface (Botucatu)

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This study discusses, through bibliographic research, the recurrence of naturalization as basis for the medicalization of the female body, as a means of social control through biological reproduction, whereby behavioral standards, social class, ethnic and race differences are rearranged/redefined. Through this process, male patriarchal and class predominance is maintained and the rift of social and gender inequalities grow wider. It is important to identify the role of technological developments and their complexities -which do not allow lowerincome classes to take decisions in regard to their own bodies and reproductive health -and schooling, specially through science and physical education classes whereby upper-class predominance is sustained. This study is part of a literature review for the development of the doctoral thesis about infertility. However, it is important to clarify the historical process referred in our study. The XIII century brings the emergence of Medicine as an area of technical and scientific knowledge of male domain that since then, it is increasingly involved in the interests of population control, disciplinarization of the workforce and hygienization of space and social relations.But these concerns vary according to contexts and times. Thus, among the XIX and XX centuries, the existence of an overpopulated European continent should be considered in opposition to Americas, by demanding settlement, absorbed immigrants, and also, discussions and ideas from Europe. The Eugenic ideals, for example, characterize the colonial phase of European imperialism, ongoing since the end of the XIX century, are visible in Brazil only in the second decade of the XX century.However, discursively linked to the improvement of race and population development, the eugenics took so aggressive and destructive under the Nazi-fascism in Europe in the decades of 30-40 of the XX century, forms that covered the need for control of the industry workforce and the struggles of social classes for distribution of wealth and socialist ideals.In the global scenario of the XXI century, the spread of the reproduction issues in newspapers of great range, with headlines that highlighted the increased fertility in the slum, and the higher birth rate among adolescents in low-income classes, and illustrates the importance of this subject today and more: the perpetuation of a hierarchy of genders and maintenance of the biopolitic strategy mentioned by Foucault (1989), in which [...] The current forms of medicine organization and the complexity of the technology associated with them ... in many cases withdraw or increase the withdrawal of the participation of common people from decision-making regarding their own body, for their well-being and in the limit, the fate of their lives. (Corrêa, 2001, p.25).This study is part of a literature review for the development of the doctoral thesis of the Post-Graduate Program in Bioscience and Health Education -Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC) / Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) on the recurrence o...

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“…The importance of sterilization as a means of fertility regulation is not without controversy. Allegations have been raised over coercive sterilizations in several Latin American countries, with the debate fuelled by feminists who claim sterilizations are being performed without women's knowledge and consent, by religious leaders who denounce sterilizations as contradicting the doctrine of the Catholic Church, and by activities who attack sterilization programmes -especially those receiving international funding -as exploitation of the poor (Berquo, 1982;Barroso, 1984;Rizo & Roper, 1986;United Nations Population Fund, 2002). Such controversy underscores the need for a better comprehension of the determinants of female sterilization in the region.…”

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Female Sterilization in Latin America: Cross-National Perspectives

2004

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Fertility levels have dropped substantially in Latin America in recent decades, fuelled by increased contraceptive use and notably a method mix skewed towards female sterilization. This study examined choice of female sterilization in four Latin American countries: Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Peru. Data were drawn from national Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 1995-1996. Discrete-time hazard models were used on the five-year calendar modules of women's reproductive histories to consider the effects of a number of sociodemographic and contextual determinants as they pertained to status at the moment of the event. The results revealed that the likelihood of a woman's having undergone contraceptive sterilization was increasing over time in Brazil and Peru, suggesting that the potential for future growth of this method remains strong. A consistent pattern of increased probability of sterilization with higher education was seen across all countries, seemingly dispelling certain controversial claims that the procedure may have been disproportionately performed on the poor. At the same time, the multilevel analytical approach pointed to significant cluster-level random effects, suggesting that there were additional unmeasured contextual influences on women's propensity to choose sterilization.

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Esterilização feminina: liberdade e opressão

Cited by 26 publications

References 3 publications

Esterilização cirúrgica feminina no Brasil, 2000 a 2006: aderência à lei de planejamento familiar e demanda frustrada¹

Esterilização cirúrgica feminina no Brasil, 2000 a 2006: aderência à lei de planejamento familiar e demanda frustrada¹

Naturalização e medicalização do corpo feminino: o controle social por meio da reprodução

Female Sterilization in Latin America: Cross-National Perspectives

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