Life Stories of HIV+ Women Activists: Changes and Permanency

Authors

  • Flávia Fernandes de Carvalhaes Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • Fernando Silva Teixeira Filho Universidade Estadual Paulista, Assis

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2012000200003

Abstract

In these acknowledgment years, AIDS has obliged us to denaturalize social and culturalquestions historically built, and that are part of the signs, rules and codes that mark out the societystructure and organization, imposing other views and new perspectives towards the complexquestions related to gender, bodies and culture. Taking this into consideration, this research wascarried out with four HIV+ women activists in the AIDS movement with the objective of apprehendingtheir conceptions about AIDS, the vulnerability contexts that made their infection possible, theirvulnerabilities towards the reinfection, and changes and permanency in the affective-conjugaland motherhood fields, from the disease and activism experience.

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Author Biographies

Flávia Fernandes de Carvalhaes, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

É doutora em CiênciasSociais pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP, 2009), professora Adjunta da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). Desenvolveupesquisa de pós-doutorado sobre conjugalidade e migrações de travestis para a Itália na Universitá degli Studi di Milano. Pesquisa sobre gênero, sexualidade, prostituição, migraçõese conjugalidade.

 

Fernando Silva Teixeira Filho, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Assis

É mestre (1993) e Doutor(2000) em Psicologia Clínica pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). Éprofessor Assistente Doutor junto ao Departamento de Psicologia Clínica da Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP-Assis). Trabalha com os seguintes temas: processos de estigmatização e produção da violência; diversidades sexuais;homoparentalidade; adoção; prevenção às DSTs e ao HIV/aids; Psicanálise e Estud

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Published

2012-05-21

How to Cite

Carvalhaes, F. F. de, & Teixeira Filho, F. S. (2012). Life Stories of HIV+ Women Activists: Changes and Permanency. Revista Estudos Feministas, 20(2), 377–398. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2012000200003

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2012)

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