Life histories and vulnerability: representations of female sexuality and reproductive practices in a UPAS (Unidad Periférica de Atención de la Salud, Peripheral Health Services Unit) of the city of Córdoba

Authors

  • Cecilia Astegiano
  • Ma. Isabel Calneggia
  • Juan Carlos Estario

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31052/1853.1180.v11.n1.7236

Keywords:

reproductive practices, gender vulnerability, females and their sexuality

Abstract

This research project was carried out as part of the sexual and reproductive health program for the urban periphery of the Municipal Government of Córdoba.

The aim is to analyze the life histories of the women that joined the program in the UPAS 13, in search of representations of their sexuality and reproductive practices.

Women construct their representations of self in two simultaneous historical times: in Modernity, by the idealization of love, maternity and gender subordination; in pre-Modernity, through the constitution of large families and maternity as an indicator of a higher differential status.

Their representations of sexuality are associated with the initiation rites of sexual intercourse in their adolescence, in permanent contrast to affection. A negative historical change can be detected in the mode of initiation in the field of sexuality. There is a specific education originated in the cultural practices of the social group, whereas the information provided by formal education and public health agents is perceived as relatively extraneous.

Social vulnerability is not perceived as a possible threat for health.

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Author Biographies

Cecilia Astegiano

Médica especialista en Medicina Familiar y General-UNC.

Ma. Isabel Calneggia

Magíster en Investigación Cualitativa, Licenciada en Ciencias de la Educación.UCC

Juan Carlos Estario

Director de la Escuela de Salud Pública UNC, Director del postgrado de Medicina Familiar y General- UNC.

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Astegiano C, Calneggia MI, Estario JC. Life histories and vulnerability: representations of female sexuality and reproductive practices in a UPAS (Unidad Periférica de Atención de la Salud, Peripheral Health Services Unit) of the city of Córdoba. Rev. Salud Pública (Córdoba) [Internet]. 2014 Apr. 9 [cited 2024 May 30];11(1):6-17. Available from: https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RSD/article/view/7236

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2007)

Section

Scientific Articles

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