Mulheres docentes de enfermagem de uma universidade pública: a percepção a respeito da corporeidade em sua atuação profissional

Abstract

By means of the body and corporality, choices can be made that affect interaction with others in a real and authentic manner, as well as intervene in aspects related to the nature of human phenomena: change, creation, sharing, teaching, transformation and being transformed. This study sought to comprehend how a woman professor of nursing perceives her body in her professional practice. Qualitative research was used with a phenomenological approach. Ten women participated in the investigation, all professors of nursing at a public university. Their statements were collected by means of interviews with the following questions: How do you see yourself as a woman and professor of nursing? What meanings have you attributed to your body as a woman and a professor of nursing? How do you utilize your body in the teaching of nursing? How do you perceive the corporal posture of your nursing students? What do you observe in them that you consider responses to your corporal postures? The statements were analyzed and interpreted in light of the theoretical-philosophical reference of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, giving rise to three themes: Corporality: expression of existence, Corporality of the woman being, Corporality and the teaching of nursing. The results of the study showed that the woman professor of nursing utilizes her body and corporality in her professorial practice, having intentionalities and actions that demonstrate an awareness of the body beyond mere biological aspects. They attribute to body-corporality important meanings that can contribute to the existence of the woman professor of nursing and, certainly, have repercussions on the practice and understanding of nursing.

Reflexões a respeito da construção histórica da corporeidade da mulher enfermeira

“…Corpo e corporeidade são conceitos que se entrelaçam, pois são interdependentes na experiência existencial do ser humano. Não existe corpo sem corporeidade e, da mesma forma, a corporeidade necessita do corpo para se concretizar como fenômeno humano (2) .…”