http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/23849 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:04:36 GMT 2026-08-12T13:04:36Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/87414 Título: Trabalho reprodutivo: repercussões pós-pandêmicas Autor(es): Lima, Antônia Vaneska Timbó de Abstract: 19 Abstract This doctoral dissertation analyzed the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the distribution and composition of reproductive labor performed by middle-class couples within the domestic sphere. We framed the pandemic period as a potential catalyst for changes in the labor field that reverberated in the configuration of the relationship between production and reproduction at that historical moment. Among these modifications, we highlight social isolation and quarantine, which required a large portion of the population to restrict themselves to the domestic space, prompting them to reconfigure the private sphere into a productive and reproductive space simultaneously. We questioned whether the pandemic event brought about new modes of spatial and temporal work structuring that led to a shift in the distribution of reproductive labor between couples. We anchored our analysis in Social Reproduction Theory articulated with the Theory of the Sexual Division of Labour, grounded in Marxist feminist epistemology, to understand the relationship between production and reproduction within contemporary capitalist society. There, reproductive labor—invisible and devalued—emerges not only as a sine qua non condition for the maintenance and reproduction of society, but also as a means by which capital ensures the renewal and reproduction of the labor force necessary for the capital accumulation process and, consequently, for the perpetuation of the system as a whole. Such labor has been historically assigned almost in its entirety to women, performed on an unpaid basis and under the guise of “family love”. Hence, the general objective emerged, namely: “To analyze the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the distribution of reproductive labor performed by middle-class couples in the domestic sphere," as well as the specific objectives: 1.To describe the scenario of reproductive labor in the contemporary context; 2. To identify the distributive dimension of reproductive labor during the pandemic period; 3.To investigate whether the distribution of reproductive labor experienced during the pandemic was maintained in the post-pandemic context; 4. To discuss the meanings that middle-class couples attribute to the distribution of reproductive labor among themselves”. Situated within the field of empirical Abstract research, we opted for a qualitative research perspective. For data construction, we chose the narrative interview in articulation with a data construction model supported by the simple/crossed self-confrontation method (self-referenced interview), conducted with heterosexual middle-class couples in the city of Fortaleza-CE, as well as the field diary kept during data construction. Research participants were selected by accessibility and convenience. Individual interviews and self-confrontation sessions were recorded and transcribed both for the self-confrontation itself and for subsequent narrative analysis. The analytical discussions were carried out in light of the theoretical framework supporting our investigation. The data pointed to a partial alteration in the distributive arrangements used by couples, with a temporary dismissal of domestic workers—which was resumed after the pandemic period—as well as a relative redistribution of childcare labor between couples. In this scenario, men took on a more significant role, which persisted after the end of the health crisis. We conclude that the distribution of reproductive labor underwent shifts toward a less unequal, though not yet equitable, division. Tipo: Tese Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/87414 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/87245 Título: “Entre fronteiras e feridas”: violência estrutural, direitos humanos e práticas de cura no percurso acadêmico de estudantes universitárias no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos Autor(es): Negreiros, Daniele Jesus Abstract: This study addresses practices of structural violence that permeate and undermine the concept of human rights, as well as processes of healing, care, and resistance as possibilities for confronting the oppressions resulting from these structures. The study was operationalized based on the following general objective: to analyze the relationships between structural violence, human rights, and healing processes in the discourses of female university students in Brazil and the United States. The following specific objectives were developed: a) to describe my experience as a Brazilian researcher and immigrant in the U.S. university context; b) to understand the immigration experiences of Brazilian female students in the United States, with an emphasis on forms of intersectional violence; c) to compare university students’ conceptions of human rights and their violations in daily university life in Brazil and the United States, based on intersectional markers; and d) to systematize healing and reparation practices and strategies that contribute to the construction of an intervention program committed to human rights in university spaces. The research articulates four qualitative empirical studies, including autoethnography, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups as methodological procedures conducted with female university students in Brazil and the United States, revealing the effects of racism, sexism, xenophobia, and coloniality in university spaces. Records were made through audio recordings and field diaries, with the proper authorizations. The work proposes the intervention program “Raízes de Cuidado” (Roots of Care), grounded in Afro-diasporic healing practices and structured around pillars of socioeconomic support, comprehensive mental health, and sociocultural assistance. The university is understood as an ambivalent space, simultaneously a reproducer of oppressions and potentially transformative, making the presence and centrality of Black, peripheral, trans, and counter-hegemonic women indispensable in the construction of a university project committed to situated and localized human rights in the Global South. Tipo: Tese Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/87245 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/87053 Título: Do encontro entre psicologia e política: uma análise das (des)articulações discursivas nas produções acadêmicas nacionais Autor(es): Dutra, Adryssa Bringel Abstract: Based on the recognition of a growing entanglement between psychological knowledge and political dynamics in the contemporary context, this tesis is dedicated to exploring how psychological discourse has operated as a privileged field in the production of subjectivities aligned with governmental rationalities. Accordingly, this study aims to map and analyze the ways in which psychological discourses are articulated with political dynamics within the Brazilian academic field. It is grounded in the hypothesis that the interpenetration between psychology and politics, as manifested in scientific productions, constitutes a grammar of veridiction that mobilizes specific forms of life conduct and subjectivity production. The analysis focuses on two major national academic journals: Psicologia & Sociedade and Psicologia Política, whose publications were taken as a discursive archive based on their analytical, performative, and historical potentialities. The choice of these sources is justified by both their institutional consolidation and their argumentative density in addressing ethical-political issues within the field of psychology. Anchored in a theoretical-methodological approach inspired by the thought of Michel Foucault and mediated by the notion of the archive, the analysis is organized around three central axes: the constitution of the field of Political Psychology as an effect of epistemic, ethical, and institutional disputes; the modes of thematization and performativity of the political in psychological discourses; and the processes of subjectivity production within these discourses, especially in the context of governmental dispositifs. It is argued that psychological discourses, by claiming authority over ways of being and acting in the world, establish regimes of truth that reshape subjective experience and mold the contours of the social. In this sense, the field of Political Psychology emerges as a strategic operator articulating knowledge and power, shifting the focus of traditional psychology toward practices implicated in the management of life and the constitution of the political subject. It is concluded, therefore, that the diffusion of psychological discursivity within Brazilian academic production not only reflects but also institutes specific political rationalities, contributing to the shaping of a contemporary subjectivity anchored in a psi-normative matrix, whose regulatory force impacts individuals’ ways of living, feeling, and acting. Tipo: Tese Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/87053 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86996 Título: A construção da negritude em mulheres no contexto rural: modos de participação e enfrentamentos Autor(es): Lemos, Patricia Mendes Abstract: The reality of black women in the country is characterised by historical marks of violence, which reverberate in various aspects of their lives, making them susceptible to a wide range of situations of oppression and psychosocial vulnerability. We understand the importance of understanding the contradictions inherent in the social participation of black women in rural contexts. From this, we developed the guiding question: How does the social participation of black women affect their relationship with blackness? The general objective of the thesis is to understand how the social participation of black women affects their relationship with blackness, while the specific objectives are: to understand the lifestyles of black women living in rural contexts; to describe these women's conceptions of blackness; to identify the processes of oppression experienced by women as a result of the intersectional relationships between racism and gender; to identify the meanings of the social participation of rural black women and to analyse the processes of identity construction of black women with social participation. This qualitative investigation is an action research project that adopts the strategies of five experiential group meetings, eleven field diaries, and six semistructured interviews. The participants are black women over the age of eighteen who are involved in some form of social participation in their communities and have been living in rural contexts for at least two years. The data was collected in Viçosa do Ceará and Tianguá, neighbouring municipalities located in the Serra da Ibiapaba, in Ceará. The information was processed using Atlas TI 5.2 software to organise the analysis of the narratives. Seven analytical dimensions were examined: ways of life of black women in rural contexts; processes of oppression, violence, and discrimination; blackness, racial identity, and recognition; social participation and sense of belonging; illness, pain, and challenges; forms of coping, resistance, and support; ancestry and spirituality. Data analysis was performed using the following methodologies: narrative analysis from decolonial and Abstract intersectional perspectives and writing practices. The results show that the social participation of black women affects their relationship with blackness in an intersectional way. Women who participate have some level of awareness of the consequences of racism and sexism, develop processes of self-identification, and relate to blackness as a movement of collective affirmation and struggle for rights. Conceptions of blackness are related to self-identification; recognition of oneself and others; and blackness as a tool for social transformation and combating racism. Women's lifestyles are characterised by excessive responsibilities, mandatory domestic and care activities, a close relationship with the land and their territories, subjugation to men in various aspects of life, a scarcity of material resources, and conditions of poverty. These aspects imply specific difficulties in the process of becoming black. We affirm that the social participation of black women interferes in their relationship with blackness by promoting the strengthening of identity and processes of individual and collective recognition, leading to the creation of modes of resistance, despite the challenges experienced. Tipo: Tese Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86996 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z