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- Title
Vulnerabilities of homeless women: social markers of gender and race/color.
- Authors
Costa Barros, Keila Cristina; Rocha Moreira, Rita de Cássia; de Oliveira, Jeane Freitas; Brazil do Nascimento, Daine Ferreira; Ferreira de Jesus, Marília Emanuela; Santos Ferreira, Ricardo Bruno
- Abstract
Objective: to unveil the vulnerabilities of homeless women linked to the social markers of gender and race/color. Methods: qualitative study, developed with ten homeless women through participant observation, field diary, and sociodemographic questionnaire, systematized based on content analysis. Results: it was found that gender identity and race/color act as potentiators of the situation of vulnerability of women. It is believed that structural racism and machismo feed back into the streets and perpetuate themselves in a perverse cycle of denial of women's rights, which is potentiated by the omission of the State and extensive social and economic inequality. Conclusion: gender and race/color potentiate the vulnerabilities of homeless women that intersect precarious social conditions, denial of rights, and favor illness. Contributions to practice: to present information that enables reflections and creation of care strategies for homeless women, understood in their singularities.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; MASCULINITY; SOCIAL problems; SOCIAL determinants of health; PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability; WOMEN'S rights; RACE; GENDER identity; SEX distribution; INSTITUTIONAL racism; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; PSYCHOLOGY of women; QUESTIONNAIRES; HOMELESS persons; ETHNIC groups; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors
- Publication
Rev Rene, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1517-3852
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15253/2175-6783.20222380608