PLANEJAMENTO FAMILIAR: RESPONSABILIZAÇÃO DA MULHER CIS PELA CONTRACEPÇÃO E GESTAÇÃO NÃO PLANEJADA?

Abstract

Responsibility for contraception and unplanned pregnancy did not begin with Family Planning, although it contributed to strengthening this responsibility, as it made cis women its target audience, exempting cis men from this task, but emerged from socio-historical processes, such as the medicalization of female body from the development of medicine, especially obstetrics and gynecology. This work sought to explain the historical and social processes that contributed to making women the axis of Family Planning and reproductive responsibilities, such as contraception and unplanned pregnancy. In order to fulfill this objective, bibliographic and documentary research was used in a qualitative approach, giving meaning to the historical phenomenon based on the method of Marx's social theory. The results obtained allow us to consider that motherhood and pregnancy are not merely natural experiences, but permeate social structures, that is, the responsibility of women for contraception was socially constructed from gender stereotypes and above all from the transformation of the female body into object of medicine. It was also possible to analyze that the level of education of men and women and equal responsibility for Family Planning is a support for achieving gender equality.