Abstract
The objective of this article was to understand the relationship between gender constructions and the process of going/settling on the streets, as well as their effects on access to health services for homeless people in the city of Florianópolis/SC. Gender relations were analyzed in the trajectories of 28 gay, lesbian and heterosexual homeless people in the city of Florianópolis/SC/Brazil, based on a social constructionism research developed from December 2017 to February 2018. Family conflicts and non-acceptance of the gender identities were narrated as a fuse of going to the street and as aggravating for violence situations in the street context. The stigma for being homeless and non-heterosexual was understood as an obstacle to the use of health and social services. It is concluded that gender relations and male domination are related to the process of breaking of family ties and going to the street. Women and LGBT people are more vulnerable. Heterosexual men suffer for maintenance their dominant position. Further studies are recommended to deepen the relationship between gender, homeless and access to public policies.
Highlights
Sexuality is a contemporary prominence theme and a complex field, with competing narratives in the scientific scenario. Foucault (1979) points out that its regulation in the West emerges as an effect of the foundation of modern episteme in the 18th century, which shifted the centrality of the sexual act to the desire and constitution of the subject
Gender relations were analyzed in the trajectories of 28 gay, lesbian and heterosexual homeless people in the city of Florianópolis/SC/Brazil, based on a social constructionism research developed from December 2017 to February 2018
The research questions are: What are the relationships between gender and the social trajectory of homeless people? What are the impacts of gender relations on the access of Hp to public services? The objective of this article was to understand the relationship between gender constructions and the process of going/settling on the streets, as well as their effects on access to health services for Hp in the city of Florianópolis/SC
Summary
Sexuality is a contemporary prominence theme and a complex field, with competing narratives in the scientific scenario. Foucault (1979) points out that its regulation in the West emerges as an effect of the foundation of modern episteme in the 18th century, which shifted the centrality of the sexual act to the desire and constitution of the subject. The discourses and social practices produce men and women make the central theme in social investigations This social construction perspective gained visibility with the emergence of the feminist movement and the concept of gender - social constructions, ways of being and acting performed and reiterated individually according to their condition and power relations in society (Giddens, 2012; Butler, 2003). The present work mobilizes such categories under the Butlerian perspective, which comprises gender and sex itself, as an effect of naturalized reiterations, in constant construction, both at the individual level and in social relations Despite their transitory character, it is clear that some of these naturalizations gain a social status of truth (Butler, 2003)
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