0188/2025 - Superproteção e interseccionalidades em face à sexualidade de mulheres jovens com deficiência: nuances entre o cuidado e o controle Overprotection and intersectionalities regarding the sexuality young women with disabilities: nuances between care and control
Este artigo tem como objetivo discutir como a interseção entre gênero, deficiência e classe, perante as relações de cuidado, podem interferir nos direitos sexuais de mulheres com deficiência na juventude. A pesquisa qualitativa, conduzida na região metropolitana de João Pessoa-PB com quatro interlocutoras, por meio de entrevistas em profundidade, analisou as vivências relacionadas à sexualidade na juventude de mulheres cishéterosexuais com deficiência física, nos anos 2000 e 2010. O eixo teórico-analítico foi ancorado nas vertentes interseccionais dos campos de estudos sobre o cuidado (care studies) e dos estudos sobre a deficiência (disability studies), considerando gênero, classe e deficiência em articulação com as experiências relacionadas à sexualidade na juventude. Destacaram-se os desafios e estratégias de enfrentamento adotadas pelas interlocutoras, como formas de resistência aos estereótipos de corponormatividade socialmente impostos, que as posiciona como exclusivamente dependentes e infantilizadas. Nas relações de cuidado, esses estereótipos suscitam comportamentos de desencorajamento ou opressão em suas jornadas afetivas e sexuais e em outros campos da vida social. Os discursos e atitudes vinculados ao cuidado, quando distorcido e transformado em superproteção, reverte-se em mecanismos de controle da sexualidade de mulheres com deficiência, sobretudo na juventude.
Palavras-chave:
mulheres com deficiência, sexualidade, juventude, cuidado, superproteção, interseccionalidade.
Abstract:
This article aims to discuss how the intersection of gender, disability, and social class, within the context of care relationships, can impact the sexual rights of young women with disabilities. The qualitative research was conducted in the metropolitan region of João Pessoa, Brazil, with four participants through in-depth interviews. It analyzed the lived experiences related to sexuality in the youth of cis-heterosexual women with physical disabilities during the 2000s and 2010s. The theoretical-analytical framework was grounded in intersectional approaches from the fields of care studies and disability studies, considering gender, class, and disability in articulation with sexual experiences during youth. The study highlights the challenges and coping strategies adopted by the participants as forms of resistance to socially imposed norms of body normality (corponormativity), which position them as exclusively dependent and infantilized. Within care relationships, these stereotypes give rise to behaviors of discouragement or oppression in their affective and sexual lives, as well as in other dimensions of social life. Discourses and practices associated with care, when distorted into overprotection, operate as mechanisms of control over the sexuality of young women with disabilities.
Keywords:
women with disabilities, sexuality, youth, care, overprotection, intersectionality.
Overprotection and intersectionalities regarding the sexuality young women with disabilities: nuances between care and control
Resumo (abstract):
This article aims to discuss how the intersection of gender, disability, and social class, within the context of care relationships, can impact the sexual rights of young women with disabilities. The qualitative research was conducted in the metropolitan region of João Pessoa, Brazil, with four participants through in-depth interviews. It analyzed the lived experiences related to sexuality in the youth of cis-heterosexual women with physical disabilities during the 2000s and 2010s. The theoretical-analytical framework was grounded in intersectional approaches from the fields of care studies and disability studies, considering gender, class, and disability in articulation with sexual experiences during youth. The study highlights the challenges and coping strategies adopted by the participants as forms of resistance to socially imposed norms of body normality (corponormativity), which position them as exclusively dependent and infantilized. Within care relationships, these stereotypes give rise to behaviors of discouragement or oppression in their affective and sexual lives, as well as in other dimensions of social life. Discourses and practices associated with care, when distorted into overprotection, operate as mechanisms of control over the sexuality of young women with disabilities.
Palavras-chave (keywords):
women with disabilities, sexuality, youth, care, overprotection, intersectionality.
Sá, FD, Longhi, MR. Superproteção e interseccionalidades em face à sexualidade de mulheres jovens com deficiência: nuances entre o cuidado e o controle. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2025/jun). [Citado em 05/12/2025].
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