Trajetórias de mulheres HIV+ no movimento político de HIV/Aids no estado do Paraná

Abstract

RESUMOEste artigo tem como objetivo apreender, a partir da análise da experiência da doença e da trajetória de vida, as mudanças ocorridas na vida de mulheres HIV+ do Estado do Paraná depois de sua inserção no movimento político de HIV!Aids desse estado. Visa, ainda, entender as motivações que as levaram a se mobilizar e a forma como a perspectiva de gênero na experiência da doença interfere nessas motivações e na sua formade atuação política.Tendo-se como pressuposto teórico-metodológico aabordagem antropológica da narrativa como forma de interpretação da experiência individual e coletiva, foram realizadas entrevistas em profundidade com 13 mulheres HIV+. Nas narrativas desponta, como categoria privilegiada de análise, a noção de pessoa, a qual é constituída por três aspectos diferenciados e, ao mesmo tempo, imbricados: a preeminência do todo, e não do indivíduo; a corporalidade; e a participação política. Esses aspectos estão articulados ao gênero, e este, por sua vez, à dimensão política, o que dá contornos específicos ao ativismo dessas mulheres.Palavras-chave: Mulher, AIDS, participação política. ABSTRACTThis article aims at understanding changes in the lives ofHIV+women in Paraná State after their insertion into polítical HIV/Aids activism,the motivations that led them to mobilization, and how gender perspective in experiencing this disease interferes with their motivations and political attitudes. Theoretically and methodologically drawing on the anthropological approach of the narrative as aform of interpretation of individual and collective experience, interviews with 13 HIV+ women were accomplished and analyzed. The narratives reveal the notion of the person as a privileged categoly which consists of three distinguished though imbricated aspects: the person related to preeminence values of the whole and not the individual, embodiment and polítical participation. Such aspects are articulated with gender and gender is linked to apolitical dimension, which gives specific contours to these women's activism.

O gênero do amor: cultura terapêutica e feminismos

“…In this sense, subjects are in constant becoming through relations that are constantly forged and re-forged, without assigning individuals and relations to a single domain of reified abstraction. 9 I refer here to my Master's dissertation (Ferreira, 2006), which addresses the trajectories of HIV-positive heterosexual women working within HIV+ political activism. All the women interviewed contracted the virus from men with whom they had stable (heterosexual and monogamous) relationships, referred to as marriage or dating.…”

Biosocial Activism, Identities and Citizenship: Making up 'people living with HIV and AIDS' in Brazil.

“…Connected from the outset with 'cutting edge' scientific research, AIDS drugs and biomedical treatments were soon available to HIV infected people. In addition, different forms of AIDS activism were created and gained legitimacy through their cogent demands for the recognition of particular rights and benefits for people with HIV in specific national contexts (Pollak 1988;Patton 1990;Kayal 1993;Altman 1994;Epstein 1996; Weeks et al 1996;Ariss 1997;Gatter 1999;Fillieule & Broqua 2000;Fassin 2007;Sívori 2007;Nguyen 2010;Gregoric 2013;Smith 2013), including Brazil (Vallinoto 1991Parker 1990 Parker , 1994Bastos 1999;Silva 1999;Galvão 1997 Galvão , 2000Valle 2000 Valle , 2002Pelúcio Silva 2002;Ferreira 2006;Biehl 2007;Lima & Jeolás 2008;Cunha 2011) 5 . Law making and political struggles for citizenship have thus been a central issue in relation to the epidemic in Brazil.…”