Visitando os discursos de mulheres velhas soropositivas sobre gênero, sexualidade e HIV-aids

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze how gender and sexuality constraints constitute the vulnerability of elderly women regarding HIV-AIDS infection. Starting from socio-cultural plots, as well as discursive practices which cause major statements on sexuality, gender and HIV-AIDS, we identify how gender and sexuality constraints may have made old women more susceptible to HIV AIDS infection. In order to do so, we bring out the knowledge that makes up the speeches on gender, sexuality and HIV-AIDS elaborated by the elderly that live with AIDS. The study comprises a field research with qualitative approach anchored in discourse analysis. The researched social group consisted of 07 elderly women living with HIV-AIDS. Thus, the sample was consisted by: 01 elderly woman accompanied by a University Hospital - Hospital UniversitárioAlcides Carneiro (HUAC); 05 elderly women from Specialized Care Service -Serviço de Atenção Especializada (SAE) and 01 elderly woman from Life Support Group - Grupo de Apoio à Vida– (GAV), all of the institutions that shaped the research placehave their headquarters in the city of Campina Grande - PB. The information was collected during the months of September and October 2014. The reached results were analyzed while the chapters were built, thus contributing to a presentation and discussion of the results as a theoretical raid on the analyzed categories was provoked. In order to unite the gender, sexuality and HIV-AIDS categories, we leaned on theoretical framework referenced by Foucauldianbiopower aiming to disassemble concepts and propose more plural reflections on what I analyze in this dissertation.