Silences about Breast Feeding: an Analisis Bases on Gender Perspective

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This article approaches the discourses of the national policy on breastfeeding in Brazil today, emphasizing underexplored meanings in its educational materials. The theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted were the Semiology of Social Discourses, which understands discourse as a constitutive/constituent of social power relations, and Gender Studies, and its questioning of the naturalization of the binary female/male division as structural to a fixed essence of beings. The analysis identified how materials continue to emphasize the importance of breastfeeding for children’s health, omitting or treating stereotypically women’s perspectives on the practice. The complexity of breastfeeding is seldom addressed, and weaning as a subjective transition in the mother-child relationship and their social world is ignored.

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Irene Rocha Kalil, Instituto Nacional de Saúde da Mulher

Irene Rocha Kalil é doutora em Ciências pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Informação e Comunicação em Saúde do Icict/Fiocruz, mestre em Educação e especialista em Sociologia Urbana pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj) e jornalista formada pela Faculdade de Comunicação da Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBa). Desde 2008, é servidora da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, atuando no Núcleo de Comunicação Social do Instituto Nacional de Saúde da Mulher, da Criança e do Adolescente Fernandes Figueira (IFF/Fiocruz).

Adriana Cavalcanti de Aguiar, Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde (Icict/Fiocruz) e Instituto de Medicina Social da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj)

Adriana Cavalcanti de Aguiar é médica formada pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj), mestre em Saúde Pública pela Fundação Oswaldo Cruz) e mestre e doutora em Educação pela Harvard University. Atualmente é pesquisadora do Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde (Icict/Fiocruz) e do Instituto de Medicina Social da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj).

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Published

2017-05-25

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Kalil, I. R., & Aguiar, A. C. de. (2017). Silences about Breast Feeding: an Analisis Bases on Gender Perspective. Revista Estudos Feministas, 25(2), 637–660. https://doi.org/10.1590/%x

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Vol. 25 No. 2 (2017)

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