Representações sociais de mulheres deficientes visuais : implicações no âmbito da vivência cotidiana

Abstract

In general the search women meet social standards required, particularly as the stereotype around the body. In cases where the sense of sight does not exist or is compromised, the processes for acquiring the physical world concepts are given differently. It was established as objective to know the social representations system about body image and practices governing social conduct, sexual and reproductive visually impaired women. It is an exploratory, descriptive study with a qualitative approach, based on the theory of social representations. Participated fourteen blind women. Data were obtained in carrying out semi-structured interviews, these processed in Alceste software and application form with questions concerning the socio-economic data. The dendrogram output has two axles, each with two classes, which are interlinked. In the first axis, called Body Perception, appear classes that deal with Gender / Sexuality and Body Image. The second area, identified as Life Plans, consists of classes with content relating to the prospects and clashes. Vision impaired women have the same social representation about body image as well as the practices governing the social, sexual and reproductive behavior, so the body image is presented differently, as this was not the main relevance to the follow-up. However, there is a perception of body image induced towards yes same as the instance of perception is different before the daily life of each individual