A RELAÇÃO DOMINANTE DO PATRIARCADO SOBRE A SAÚDE REPRODUTIVA DAS MULHERES NO CENÁRIO BRASILEIRO

Abstract

The present work (TCC) deals with the debate about the attention to women's reproductive health in Brazil. Our choice of theme was based, a priori, on the experiences lived in the Supervised Internship in Social Work that took place at Instituto Cândida Vargas. And in view of our concern to analyze the influence of patriarchy on gender relations and the construction of women's autonomy. Our main objective was to apprehend the main factors that affect the exercise of women's full rights over their own bodies and with regard to the promotion of public policy on reproductive health care, in particular, the issue of the centrality of family planning in the female figure. The methodological route included the observation of women's understanding of reproductive rights. We also base our study through a bibliographical review, readings, records and analyzes on the subject and by understanding that Social Service professionals work to enable women's access to their reproductive rights. Our main study categories dealt with gender, patriarchy, women's health and reproductive rights. Among the results achieved, our study reaffirmed the still predominant patriarchal influence in the implementation of programs and services aimed at women's reproductive health and the neoconservative offensives in the sense of preventing women from assuming full rights over their bodies.