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Women's experience with contraception from the perspective of gender
Thalyta Francisca Rodrigues de Medeiros1, Sheila Milena Pessoa Dos Santos1, Alana Gonçalves Xavier1
1Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Curso de Enfermagem. Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brasil.
Objective:
To analyse the experience of women with contraception from the perspective of gender.
Methods:
Qualitative and exploratory-descriptive study conducted at three basic healthcare units in the city of Lagoa Seca - PB, Brazil, with 15 women interviewed between January and May 2013. The content analysis technique was used to process the data.
Results:
Data analysis led to the core category 'women's contraceptive choices and their relationship with gender dynamics', that subsequently led to the subcategories 'unequal construction of gender identities in childhood and adolescence', 'outcome of gender dynamics in (contra)ception during adolescence', and ' medicalisation of the female body'.
Conclusions:
It was observed that the experience with contraception is related to the dynamics of gender, with the outcome of teenage pregnancy and the medicalization of the body.
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