Olhares de profissionais da assistência social (SUAS) sobre processos reprodutivos de mulheres

Abstract

This research was conducted as part of a master's degree, it involves the social assistance policies field, more specifically, the brazilian unified social assistance system (Sistema Único de Assistência Social - SUAS). In this sense, we aim to ponder on social representations related to the reproductive processes of women who access the SUAS system based on the perspective of professionals from these services. Specifically, we intend to: (a) investigate, in SUAS context, how the social representations on reproductive processes are related to race, social class and gender and (b) think about the social representation’s ideological meanings of reproductive processes in the social protection policies field (SUAS). Adopting a qualitative research approach, we conducted semi-structured interviews with SUAS professionals who currently attend or have already attended women, moreover, we used a questionnaire with sociodemographic questions and a free association instrument named “Carta de Marear”. Sustaining the data analyses by the Critical-Social Psychology epistemology to formulate our interpretation, we also rely on the Meaning Interpretation Method, resorting to authors whose perspective is supported by the Theory of Social Representations, procedural and cultural approach, and/or Decolonial and Intersectional Feminist perspectives to our interpretations. The results have shown that, based on the professionals' perspectives, the representations of women's reproductive processes in SUAS are associated with conceptions of motherhood and family, poverty and birth control ideologies. Finally, we point out the importance of valuing Sexual and Reproductive Rights in SUAS services, so that women's reproductive decisions can be centered on autonomy and decision-making power.