Sendo mãe, sendo pai: sexualidade, reprodução e afetividade entre adolescentes de grupos populares em Belém

Abstract

This study it focuses the events related to the affective-sexual trajectories of young people (men and women) of popular layers, in its majority, students of a public school. Guided for an antropological look, the research contemplated beyond the 36 adolescents (24 women and 12 men), main interlocutors, pertaining people to its nets of relations in the family and the school, such as: mothers, aunts, sisters, grandmothers, godmothers, teachers and friends. The direct comment in the contexts of sociability of the group was increased of informal colloquies and the use of the field’s diary, having been carried through deepened individual interviews with the 36 participants. In the interior of the different trajectories analyzed here, the contexts and unfoldings of the pregnancy during the adolescence, the maternity and the paternity, the conflicts, the impasses, the arrangements, rearrangements and the nets of relations established around the mentioned events are pointed, in the scope of the family and the school. The cultural logics that preside over the affective-sexual experiences, informed, over all, for the sort gender differentiations are detached. The objective was to formulate the understanding, as next as possible translated in a interpretation to the cultural meanings attributed to the events for that they live deeply them.