Abstract
To analyze the social representations of women diagnosed with HIV about their sexuality considering generational characteristics. Qualitative study, carried out with women who participated through interviews. The constituted corpus was processed by the Iramuteq software. The analysis was based on the Theory of Social Representations. A total of 39 women participated in the study, aged between 18-76 years old and most of them had high school education, evoked the terms 'people' (301), 'partner' (277), 'children' (249), 'virus' (275) and 'want' (216). The younger ones accept to reveal and/or 'tell' about their condition to their partner(s) and family members, an aspect that is not revealed in the statements of women of other ages. For women aged 45 and over, children occupy a prominent place and for the older adults, the centrality of representation referred to self-censorship and maintaining the victim/guilty game. This study made it possible to identify processes of anchoring sexualities in terms of what 'cannot be revealed' beyond the family context. It should be noted that the elements 'sex', intercourse' conceived by common sense as a synonym for sexuality, regardless of generation, had low frequency.
Highlights
Sexuality is a dimension of human being related to internal and subjective structures, its experience meets a social construction and cultural contexts
It is characterized as a study with a qualitative approach and its theoretical-methodological focus is the Theory of Social Representations (TSR), which is understood as a space for everyday production, where common sense is seen as an appropriate force to reinvent and displace the subject[11]
The social and disease-related characteristics allowed the formation of generational groups and their description in close association with age groups, education level, time of diagnosis, economic status, marital status and partner, whether people living with the virus or not
Summary
Sexuality is a dimension of human being related to internal and subjective structures, its experience meets a social construction and cultural contexts. The social discourses that produce genders, polarities and differences bear the marks of the patriarchy’s political and power relations. Reluctant, they determine the meaning of sexuality, sexual practices and sex without respecting the differences. The expansion of the concept of women’s health with the incorporation of reproductive rights in the 80s and 90s of the last century, in Brazil, establishes dialogues with heteronormative sexuality and allows the construction of political discussion fields beyond the traditional readings of health and legality[4]
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