Masculinidade : os homens e o cuidado com a saúde

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Maria Auxiliadora Garcia da
• Data de Publicação: 2001
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/1320
• topic: Identidade de Gênero; Gênero e Saúde; Masculinidade

The present dissertation has the goal of discuss some questions about health and illness and their possible repercussions over masculinity, seen through the representations of men porter of illness in the prostate. It’s the result of an investigation of qualitative approach, centered on the subjective dimension of the process of getting ill and its repercussion over the definition/redefinition of the identity of the male gender. Were specially analyzed the repercussions that the experience of illness, while fragility status, can cause over man, about the behavior change, in the meaning of bringing a process of taking care of their health. The was centered in a group of people who were interviewed, came from the popular classes, searching for joining the symbolic dimension of the actions of the male subjects within their class material conditions, building a popular culture. The camp work was made from august to October, 1999, in a philanthropic public hospital in Fortaleza, using individual interviews semi structured. The analysis made started by the previous definitions of the topics for the elaboration of the interviews schedule, followed by the identification of the emergent categories from the informant speeches as a center of codification in thematic nucleus.Among the found results we can detach: that the work is determinant for health quality of the man in popular classes, it’s not illness therefore, that provokes repercussions over masculinity, but work is determinant, that illness does not represent a preoccupation related to the development of sexual activities, at least, not so much as the work relation represents, that the lack of attention on sickly sensations and on their own body men also don’t notice the prostate as an organ that has implication with sexual achievement and, at last, that health care notions is associated with extravagance in entertainment activities signing for a certain difficulty in taking care of health when it’s a young man.