A imagem social de mulheres negras universitárias: a silhueta esculpida durante o processo de formação

• Autor(a) principal: Guedes, Claudia Rosane
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/11260
• topic: Women; Ethnics; Self-image; Stigma; Nursing in higher education; Negras - Educação (Superior) - Brasil; Ensino superior (Ciências médicas) - Aspectos sociais; Autopercepção - Aspectos sociais; Estigma (Psicologia social); Percepção social; Mulher; Etnia; Autoimagem; Estigma; Enfermagem em educação superior; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM

This study approaches the theme of existing relationships between college background and social image for African-descendant women in the health care field and its possible personal and social transformations. We bear in mind that college background results in social appreciation and its consequences influence the social roles played by this group. Therefore, we seek to describe African-descendant women's social image from the perspective of African-descendant college women and their social self-image; we further seek to analyze the influence of college background in their social self-image. Methodology: Descriptive exploratory research with qualitative approach, carried out with partially-structured interview scripts with ten interviewees who have self-declared African-descendants or dark-skinned individuals enrolled in Graduate Programs (Master's Degree) from a public state university in the district of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). The data produced were analyzed and interpreted according to Bardin's content analysis technique. Three categories emerged from this process. The first category African-descendant women's social image from the perspective of African-descendant college women describes the unequal condition of from the perspective of African-descendant women in society from the depreciation of female gender and race (sexism and racism), as well as the African-descendant women body as sex object. The second category - College background in the life of African-descendant women broke down into two intermediary categories: Positive situations experienced during education (college education as a vehicle for social and personal transformation from the broadening of scientific knowledge and improved social insertion); Negative situations (class inequalities, feelings of indecision, frustration towards the choice for the course and learning and adaptation constraints). The third category African-descendant college women's self-image develops the interviewees perception regarding their self-image from the college education process, and unfolds in positive and negative views on their self-image. The positive view highlights the empowerment before their ethnic condition, characterized by persevering attitudes and e evidence of competence on their daily lives, favoring the strengthening of social positions; moreover, some of them do not report experiencing social differences due to their ethnic condition. The negative view was described from the feelings of low self-esteem, insecurity towards their position in the social environment and difficulty to talk about their self-image. For the interviewees, self-image is not expressed by stereotypes, but by the social accomplishments they achieve as a result of their college background. College background becomes a paramount condition to overcome the social stigmas that interfere in this group s social image in society.