O amor é ação: um estudo sobre as trajetórias reprodutivas das mulheres no Guerém - Maragogipe

Abstract

The main theme of this thesis is to know the life trajectories of understanding how the reproductive decisions of seven quilombola women living in the communities of Baixão do Guaí and Guerém, in Maragogipe, Recôncavo da Bahia, have been crossed by material conditions, love and defense of their territory, considering the cleavages of race and gender, in an intersectional perspective. It is a qualitative research whose method of investigation is oral history in the life trajectory modality. To collect the information, notes from an extension project carried out between 2018 and 2019, bibliographic research and semi-structured interviews were used, presented to the women individually or collectively, respecting their decisions, so that it was possible to know how they built the struggle in defense of their territory from the time when the place was owned by influential farmers in the region to the present day, when the process of recognition as a quilombola community begins. The trajectory of these women changes in time and space, influenced by the conditions promoted according to the political, economic and social context. However, from the windows of opportunity that presented themselves, from the beginning of the construction of a Brazilian republican state with the institutional and structural residues of enslavement, to the consolidation of a democratic state of law, but which preserves the marks of racism in its core, these women articulated themselves in order to guarantee the recognition of their quilombola identity, as well as a justice subsidized in equity with regard to the right to the territory. Through such transformations, these women seek good living, plan the upbringing of their children, build the strengthening and defense of their community, experience romances and loves, but are also violated from the point of view of the right to their own bodies, abandoned by the poor, but they are also violated from the point of view of the right to their own bodies, helpless by poverty, victimized by obstetric violence, intimidated in their own homes by the insecurity of territorial possession. It was also identified that the logic of birth control still prevails in the way reproductive health policies are built. Thus, we analyze it in the light of the concept of Reproductive Justice, consideram that it is too articulated with the perspective of good living that the black women's movement has adopted as a parameter for its claims in the field of rights. Therefore, it is also possible to claim the right of black women to the recognition of their capacity to love and be loved from the understanding of love as an action, a right that has been historically denied, as one of the faces of dehumanization of these women.