Among shames and silences, the confided body (Practices and representations women produce with the menstruation experience)

• Autor(a) principal: de Fáveri, Marlene
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Venson, Anamaria Marcon
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/5403
• topic: Menstruação; Relações de gênero; Representações; Corpo; Experiência; Menstruation; Gender relations; Representations; Body; Experience

This article is inserted in the analysis of cultural practices as well as their representations, as lived by women from different generations in the South of Santa Catarina State, perceived in the experience of the menarche emergence as a rite of passage. Our purpose is to understand how women, within the menarche experience, build representations of the feminine. Menstruation as a body manifestation, is only understood within a certain cultural context, so its meanings can only be understood within such contexts. For these analyses, the gender category encourages the idea that all kinds of silence, guided by senses of fear and shame, are understood as cultural constructions and bring about power relations. This situation is circumscribed in the imposition of the so called “feminine roles” by showing a body which is produced according to gender expectations. From the oral history perspective, the memory sources were precious for this work, being interpreted in the light of History methodologies.