Gender and sexuality in the scene of brazilian policy: the elective affinities and (in)visibilities in public agenda

Authors

  • Eliane Portes Vargas Instituto Oswaldo Cruz – FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
  • Luciane da Costa Moás Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro – UFRRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2236672517048

Keywords:

gender, sexuality and public policy, family, reproduction, reproductive rights

Abstract

The article points out strictly to (in)visibility in terms of public policies and agendas, particularly health that have on gender and sexuality the focus of interventions, analyzed as from the criticism of the intervention in the bodies by biomedicine and perspective of sexual and reproductive rights. The connections between the two spheres - sexuality and reproduction - the driving forces that are discourse right the option remain strongly present in social discourse and political action, resulting in consecration of certain dominant themes on the agenda of public policies in Brazil.

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Author Biographies

Eliane Portes Vargas, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz – FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ.

Doutora em Saúde Coletiva pelo Instituto de Medicina Social da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ e Docente e Pesquisadora do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz – FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

E-mail:  elianepvargas@gmail.com

Luciane da Costa Moás, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro – UFRRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ.

Doutora em Saúde Coletiva pelo Instituto de Medicina Social da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ e Docente e Pesquisadora da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro – UFRRJ, Campus Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

E-mail:  lumoas@yahoo.com.br

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Published

2014-12-31

How to Cite

Vargas, E. P., & Moás, L. da C. (2014). Gender and sexuality in the scene of brazilian policy: the elective affinities and (in)visibilities in public agenda. Século XXI: Journal of Social Sciences, 4(2), 325–248. https://doi.org/10.5902/2236672517048

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2014): Dossier Socio-Anthropological Reflections about Public Policies on Gender and Sexuality

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