Trajetórias educacionais de mulheres: uma leitura interseccional da deficiência

• Autor(a) principal: Farias , Adenize Queiroz de
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/9920
• topic: Capacitismo; Desigualdades de Gênero; Estudos sobre a Deficiência; Precariedade da vida; Trajetórias Educacionais; Ableism; Gender Inequalities; Disability Studies; Precariousness of life; Educational Trajectories; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

In spite of significant advances and increasing possibilities of social participation experienced by both women and persons with disabilities, the naturalization of their bodies remains as the main factor related to the permanence of practices of silencing and discrimination. In this doctoral research, the starting point is the observation that feminist movements, as well as the vast literature on gender issues, are fragile when it comes to the intersection with disability; in turn, most studies on disability neglect the female condition. Considering that gender and disability intersect as factors of oppression and discrimination that heighten female vulnerability and inequalities, the argument presented in this dissertation is that, in the case of women with disabilities, the process of precariousness of life occurs through the intersection of ableist and sexist structures. By establishing strong barriers to access to school, higher education, and to the full exercise of their sexuality, such structures place them in unequal positions in relation to men with disabilities and women without disabilities. Therefore, the purpose of this research, located in the area of Cultural Studies of Education, was to analyze the effects of ableist and sexist structures in the experience of inequality and multiple vulnerabilities of women with disabilities. Based on literature review and an empirical approach to the trajectories of women with disabilities, it discusses the precariousness of the life they experience from the perspective of ableism and gender inequalities. It uses the notion of trajectory proposed by Pierre Bourdieu, which emphasizes the individual action of certain subjects (habitus), in close relation with wider social contexts (fields). The narratives of the educational trajectories of Maria Aparecida Ramos de Menezes, Joana Belarmino de Souza, and Nayara de Almeida Adriano, professors with disabilities at Federal University of Paraíba, collected through interviews conducted in the first semester of 2016, seek to answer the research question: "How ableist and sexist inequalities appear in the educational trajectories of women with disabilities within family, school, and higher education?" Based on their narratives, which evoke my own trajectory as a woman with a visual disability, the analysis points at the common experiences of inequality lived by women with disabilities, which exclude them from participation in the public sphere and deny their right to autonomous choice and decision-making, within a sexist and ableist culture. However, the trajectories of these three women reveal that education makes it possible to breakdown such barriers and contribute to the educational and social development of other women with disabilities. By presenting the relevant contributions of feminist perspectives regarding a new understanding of disability, this dissertation aims at strengthening the debate about the transformation of able-normative mentalities, a still incipient debate in both movements of women and people with disabilities, in order to open new possibilities of empowerment and social participation.