Social representations of motherhood for women deprived of liberty in the female prison system

Ciencia e Saude Coletiva

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Medeiros, Anderson Brito de¹  Silva, Glauber Weder dos Santos²  Lopes, Thaís Rosental Gabriel¹  Carvalho, Jovanka Bittencourt Leite de¹  Caravaca-Morera, Jaime Alonso³  Miranda, Francisco Arnoldo Nunes de¹ 

[1] Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte;Secretaria de Saúde Pública do Rio Grande do Norte;Universidade da Costa Rica

关键词: Nursing;    Pregnancy;    Prisons;    Prisoners;    Social Psychology;   

DOI  :  10.1590/1413-812320222712.11522022EN

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Associacao Brasileira de Pos - Graduacao em Saude Coletiva

【 摘 要 】

This paper aimed to analyze the social representations of motherhood of pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and those who experienced pregnancy in deprivation of liberty in the prison system. This qualitative study was conducted with 42 women and is grounded on the assumptions of the Theoretical Paradigm of Social Representations. Most participants were young women aged 18-39 (90.5%; n=38) and single (50.0%; n=21); 61.9% (n=26) reported two or more pregnancies and 47.6% (n=20) reported one or more miscarriages. The possible representation of being a mother in prison was crystallized, in semantic terms, mainly by the terms “separation” (f=27; OME: 2.9), “sadness” (f=18; OME: 2.3), “horrible” (f=16; OME: 2.1) and “pain” (f=12; OME: 2.8). In the substitution and decontextualization zone, representations were objectified by the terms “separation” (f=18; OME: 3), “sadness” (f=13; OME: 2.5), “fear” (f=11; OME: 2.2) and “horrible” (f=10; OME: 1.5). It was evident that the centrality of social representations for the study participants reflects the suffering experienced by the separation of the mother-child dyad.

【 授权许可】

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