O processo de adolescer no discurso de mulheres adolescentes de uma comunidade periférica em Manaus

Abstract

This work discusses adolescence. It addresses issues related to the different ways of understanding this theme, so as to approach the conceptions that adolescent women from a peripheral neighborhood of the city of Manaus have developed about their teenage years. This is an exploratory qualitative research. The records were constructed from six adolescents between 16 and 19 years old and the data were analyzed through discourse analysis (Pêcheux) in order to guide some actions stemming from psychosocial project called Creative and Solidarity Community. The results show that for some adolescents, adolescence came without much demarcation, as continuation of life, bringing only greater responsibilities with the domestic tasks and the care of the younger siblings. For others, adolescence allowed a little more freedom. Other reports, however, reveal the opposite: greater vigilance and control on the part of family members, which ratifies the particular way in which each adolescent experiences this stage of life. Thus, by prioritizing the look of these women on themselves, we hope to contribute to the strengthening of perspectives that may increasingly give voice to adolescents and, in this way, enable new possibilities for us to understand the adolescent process.