Ser mulher cuidadora de pessoas com deficiência à luz da categoria gênero: reflexões a partir de um projeto de ensino/pesquisa/extensão no campo da educação física

Abstract

O estudo objetiva analisar o ser mulher, cuidadora de pessoas com deficiência, à luz da categoria gênero, a partir de um projeto de ensino/pesquisa/extensão no campo da Educação Física. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram sete mães dos jovens e adultos com deficiência intelectual participantes do projeto de extensão “Cuidadoras que dançam”. O trabalho de cunho qualitativo utilizou como instrumento para recolha de dados a entrevista semiestruturada com interpretações baseadas nas análises de conteúdo. Conclui que as mães cuidadoras estão nesse lugar por uma construção histórico-cultural e que há uma sobrecarga de trabalho imputada à figura feminina que carece do desenvolvimento de políticas públicas equitativas desse trabalho de cuidado entre o Estado e a família.

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“…3 Because of this, their care requires structuring the family and social network, 3,4 being so important for the child as it is for mothers to emancipate themselves from the naturalization and imposition of caring for the child as a purely maternal activity. 5 In this study, the concept of systemic family is adopted, understood as a system composed of family units that live in constant interaction, sharing beliefs, principles and values. Each relative has its relevance in the family system, being responsible for the dynamics and organization of family arrangements.…”

Meeting of powerful women: social occupational therapy intervention strategy with informal caregivers of people with intellectual disabilities

“…In the care-paternity relationship, some authors point out that, in addition to direct abandonment, when the man does not accept the reality of the birth of a child with a disability because of the idealization carried out during pregnancy, indirect abandonment may occur, which is when the fathers do not know how to act in relation to care because it is an activity little assigned to men, opting for absence, so that the responsibility becomes only the mothers' (Silva et al, 2019). In these cases, men have internalized the dominant family model, in which mothers should be responsible for childcare and fathers for material provision (Henn & Sifuentes, 2012).…”

O Cuidar de uma Pessoa com Câncer na Ótica de Familiares Cuidadores: Revisão de Literatura

“…Na maioria das vezes, o papel de cuidador é exercido por mulheres e, no contexto familiar, boa parte das cuidadoras são filhas, irmãs ou esposa. Isso reafirma questões culturais, em que a mulher, por possuir a atribuição materna, recebe a função e a obrigação de cuidar dos seus familiares quando estes necessitam de cuidados (FETSCH et al, 2016;DA SILVA et al, 2019).…”