Aborto: uma visão humanística

Porto, Rozeli Maria; Grossi, Miriam Pillar

doi:10.1590/s0104-026x2008000200031

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“…This NGO has had a major role in systematizing pro-choice arguments in Brazilian society, emphasizing the need to deal with the critical situation of unsafe, illegal abortion and its race and class-based implications (Porto and Grossi 2008;Scavone 2008). The group brings together theologians, sociologists, psychologists and others who attempt to promote more open-minded Christian and Catholic approaches to women's and humanist concerns.…”

Section: Policies On Contraception Health and Abortion In Brazilmentioning

confidence: 99%

Families, Gender Relations and Social Change in Brazil: Practices, Discourse, Policy

Adelman

Azevedo

2011

J Child Fam Stud

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We discuss three different areas in which policies on gender and the family have been debated and formulated in Brazil, revealing both the forces of change and the many contradictions that are at work within this society today. After a brief look at the historical vicissitudes of families and family life in Brazil, as representations and as forms of social organization, we come to our more immediate context: the re-democratization processes that engulfed Brazilian society as of the 1980s and the social actors generated therein. Issues relating to gender and sexuality become increasingly visible on the broad political agenda that, notwithstanding national specificities, also converges with social, political and cultural trends emerging all over the world in the latter decades of the twentieth century. The three specific issues we discuss here-the Maria da Penha Law on domestic violence, efforts regarding the legalization of abortion and recent debates that have emerged around a bill introduced to give legal status to same-sex relationships-provide testimony of a society characterized by tensions between mechanisms sustaining restrictive definitions of family, linked to male dominance, heterosexism and hierarchical gender roles, and those that push toward more egalitarian, diverse and democratic family relations.

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Section: Policies On Contraception Health and Abortion In Brazilmentioning

confidence: 99%