Banca de DEFESA: JAQUELINE COELHO SANTANA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : JAQUELINE COELHO SANTANA
DATE: 08/03/2024
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: REMOTO
TITLE:

“ONE IS NOT BORN, BUT RATHER BECOMES, A MOTHER”: A critical discursive analysis of clandestine abortion and Reproductive Justice based on narratives of black women and their support networks

KEY WORDS:

Clandestine abortion; reproductive justice; critical discourse studies; black feminisms; decoloniality.

PAGES: 293
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUMMARY:

This thesis studied and analyzed discursive representations of clandestine abortions experienced by three Brazilian women between 2005 and 2022 and how the support networks to which these women resorted are presented in their narratives about their lived experience. Based on theoretical and methodological references from Critical Discourse Studies (Vieira 2020; Resende 2017, 2020; Pardo, 2010; Pardo Abril, 2005, 2007; MAGALHÃES, 2017), Narrative Analysis (BASTOS & BIAR, 2015; BASTOS & SANTOS, 2013; SANTOS, 2013; GEORGAKOPOLOU, 2015), Black and Decolonial Feminisms (COLLINS, 2016; VERGÉS, [1952] 2021; GONZALES, [1980] 2018; Carneiro, 2005), Oxunism (OYĚWÙMÍ, 2016; 2020; NZEGWU, 2011) and Reproductive Justice (GOES, 2019; ROSS, 2007, 2011), this research presents an intersectional explanatory critique of how language, through the discursive representations of women who have undergone voluntary abortions, unveils the broader Brazilian political, gender, racial and social debate on the criminalization of abortion. For the purposes of this research, women's perceptions of their choice to terminate a pregnancy in a context of criminalization are fundamental. Secondly, some aspects of the construction of sociocultural meanings are also relevant in the production of these representations, such as how participants identify and evaluate the influence of support networks that accompanied them on their journey to have a clandestine abortion. As is the case, the study of these itineraries elucidates the intersections of oppression to which women are subjected from the moment they discover they are pregnant, decide to terminate the pregnancy, until the abortion is carried out. Through critical discourse analysis of the participants' narratives, it was possible to identify the methods used to terminate their pregnancies, which support networks were built up or formed during this journey and, finally, how these networks may have influenced the way in which the experience of abortion is discursively represented by these women. The data analyzed in this thesis was generated through narrative interviews with the participants and some of their support networks between 2020 and 2023, as well as the researcher's field diary. Using the concepts of matripotency (OYEWUMI, 2016) and decolonial attitudes (FANON, 1952; 1961; MALDONADO-TORRES, 2020), this research observed how women in a context of criminalization, targeted by state necropolitics that unequally affect black bodies based on their reproductive possibilities, can resort to an abortion as a response to their own and their community's physical and subjective survival. In this way, this study contributes to the discussion on the decriminalization of abortion in Brazil by focusing on the narratives of women who have terminated pregnancies and by proposing an analysis using theoretical bases outside the Western hegemonic axis that understands these women as social actors engaged in attitudes of social and political change, as well as the issue of abortion as a public health problem with social dimensions, even though the current scenario holds people who may become pregnant individually responsible.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - EMANUELLE FREITAS GOES - UFBA
Externa à Instituição - NATHALIA DIORGENES FERREIRA LIMA - UNILAB
Externa à Instituição - DANIELE DE OLIVEIRA - UFBA
Externa à Instituição - GLENDA CRISTINA VALIM DE MELO - UNIRIO
Interna - 1719965 - JULIANA DE FREITAS DIAS
Presidente - 2504998 - VIVIANE CRISTINA VIEIRA