0385/2006 - Gender signs on female smoking: a sociological approach to women´s cigarette smoking
As marcas de gênero no fumar feminino: uma aproximação sociológica do tabagismo em mulheres
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• Marcia Terezinha Trotta Borges - Trotta, M.T. - Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro - Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho - UFRJ - <marciatrotta@nesc.ufrj.br>Thematic Area:
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AbstractThrough extensive review of the specialized literature about woman smoking, this essay, aiming to enlarge the understanding of this question, proposes the adoption of Social Sciences concepts, particularly the gender category, intending to support more integral and encompassing approaches towards prevention and health assistance of tobacco smoking women.
Analysing the epidemiologic scenery of woman smoking, three tendencies identified – pauperization, feminilization and juvenilization – confirmes that many women disease are related to social and gender unequalities. Gender dimension is associated to woman smoking through women’s ‘protest pathologies’ which historically express dissatisfactions and social contradictions experienced by women in their lives.
The essay concludes that the meaning attributed to cigarette by women has strong connections with the ways gender relations are organized in current society, as well as with their relationship with health services, what demands more encompassing and enlarging approaches of women’s health, including woman smoking.
Key-words: Woman and smoking, Gender; Health Care
