The women's lived experience in contemporary conjugality: a phenomenological-existential perspective.

Abstract

This article is the result of a master's research that aimed to understand how women experience the roles in contemporary conjugality and in the exercise of motherhood, and what the senses they attribute to these experiences. From the existential-phenomenology of Jean-Paul Sartre and the invaluable contributions of Simone de Beauvoir about the situation of women, it was possible to understand how is developed the being project of the collaborators of this study, middle-class women, workers, living a relationship, and with children, residents in Fortaleza, Ceará. For data collect, the phenomenological interview was used with a triggering question "how is being a woman?". For the analysis of the results, the Progressive-Regressive method was used. The results show that, even with a formal instruction and a financial independence of women, their roles in conjugal relationships have undergone few modifications in relation to the increase of responsibilities that fall on them. The idea that there is a feminine essence permeates the experience lived by these women in motherhood, in the contemporary conjugality and in the job market, pointing out that there are still many obstacles to solve social problems through the life history of these women.