http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/23847 Sat, 30 May 2026 17:17:00 GMT 2026-05-30T17:17:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86504 Título: “O que resta além da crítica é desperdício”: uma análise feminista e interseccional sobre o encarceramento feminino Autor(es): Lima, Stephanie Caroline Ferreira de Abstract: Intersectional critical social theory is by no means antagonistic to Feminist Critical Theory. Although some authors within the latter maintain that there is a separation between theoretical production and political activism, both criticality and radicality are constructed in each through the self-reflexivity enabled by constant and interdisciplinary dialogue. Guided by a feminist critical imagination, this doctoral thesis in Psychology (UFC) has as its general objective the articulation of the debate between authors of U.S. Feminist Critical Theory and Marxist, post-structuralist, and decolonial authors from the Global South and Global North with Black feminist thought — radical and intersectional. The specific objectives are: (a) to situate Angela Davis within Feminist Critical Theory; (b) to understand the proposal of restorative justice (Davis) and its implications for struggles aimed at dismantling prison systems; (c) to articulate Patricia Hill Collins’s intersectional critical social theory and that of other contemporary Black feminist thinkers with Feminist Critical Theory; (d) to discuss the relationship between penal vulnerability and the normative frameworks (re)produced by the penal state and public security policies; and (e) to analyze the criminalization of incarcerated women through an intertwining of Feminist Critical Theory and intersectional critical social theory. This is, therefore, a theoretical study whose methodological development unfolds through the articulation of contributions from different feminist thinkers toward an immanent analysis of reality, used here as the basis for an expanded examination of the issue of women’s incarceration in Brazil. The thesis is divided into two parts, with three sections in the first part and two in the second. In the first section, the author situates Feminist Critical Theory and some of the disputes among intellectuals within this field. The second section discusses concepts from the Feminist Critical Theory of Angela Davis, Judith Butler, and Denise Ferreira da Silva related to struggles for dignity and justice—namely, prison abolitionism, normative frameworks, and raciality—presenting key elements for a situated critique of punitive neoliberalism and the increasing criminalization of women, especially Black women. The third, examines Patricia Hill Collins’s proposition of intersectional critical social theory, focusing on the epistemic resistance made possible through Black feminist thought. In the second part of this doctoral thesis, an intersectional analytical exercise on women’s incarceration is undertaken in two sections: one addressing penal selectivity and vulnerability, which result in the overrepresentation of poor and Black people in Brazilian prisons; and another focused on the challenges of addressing gender-specific needs and reducing rights violations amid the crisis of the Brazilian prison system. The propositions developed in both parts culminate in the defense of the author’s thesis: an intersectional Black Feminist Critical Theory that, in this research, made it possible to analyze how institutional racism and criminalizing frameworks operate in the production of penal vulnerability among the Black population—who constitute the majority within the Brazilian prison system—as well as violations of the fundamental rights of incarcerated women, in contexts where institutional racism and sexism intertwine through racist framings, social inequalities, and interconnected forms of oppression. Tipo: Tese Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86504 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86502 Título: A noção de recusa na história clínica da anorexia: chaves de leitura para o contemporâneo Autor(es): Diniz, Glauco José Rocha Abstract: This research aims to investigate the phenomenon of anorexia and the role played by refusal in its construction. From the methodological approach of the thesis, as a psychoanalytic study, it was possible to identify the determining function of refusal in sustaining the anorexic phenomenon, both through a literature review (gathering terms specifically related to anorexia) and through the place this notion assumed in the writings of psychoanalysts who focused on anorexia in their theoretical formalization efforts. The investigation was divided into three chapters, where we sought to situate the propositions related to understanding anorexia, but also the implications of this understanding for the challenges presented regarding treatment direction. Here, the issue of its connections with the contemporary is also unfolded. The formalization undertaken by such authors (and the place the notion of refusal assumes within it) became even more significant when the DSM V and the corresponding treatment protocols established significant changes in understanding anorexia. Changes that precisely aimed at the term of refusal. Reported up to DSM IV, in DSM V it is omitted and intended to be used "in specific cases" as outlined by the manual. The research path we undertook allows us to support the thesis that the removal of the term produces effects in both the clinic and culture, as this suppression affects what concerns a mark of the subject. Thus, if the notion of refusal allows us to grasp the construction of the anorexic symptom, it is also, at the same time, the theoretical formalization resulting from a listening oriented towards the subject. Refusal is a notion that preserves the subject, indicating their presence even in phenomena approaching death. It is this presence of the subject that appears in understanding the symptom, which can simultaneously provide an ethical direction to the challenges 9 experienced in treatment direction. The subject, still there, marking something singular in the relationship each one establishes with the Other, is, therefore, the index of the ethics that governs both the formalization work carried out by analysts and the listening that sustains their practice. This corroborates the solidarity and, as Pura Cancina proposed, the Borromean structure of the relationships between theory, practice, and clinic. At the end of this thesis, we aim to instill propositions that allow us to affirm that it will be through refusal that the anorexic will be able to make a hole in the Other and redirect their desire. Tipo: Tese Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86502 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86413 Título: O impacto das redes de suporte social e de cuidado no enfrentamento às violências através dos coletivos de mulheres em Fortaleza - Ceará Autor(es): Xavier, Natacha Farias Abstract: This study stems from concern about the number of women who suffer various forms of violence on a daily basis, whether in their romantic relationships, in their work environment, on the streets, during their leisure time, and, above all, from the unacceptable fact that women die simply because they are women, specifically black, marginalized, and transgender women. According to the 17th Annual Report on Public Violence (FBSP, 2023), the state of Ceará was the sixth most violent in terms of domestic and family violence between 2021 and 2022. Governments and public policies need to act more effectively to protect women, and society needs to rethink the values that sustain gender coloniality, where racism, sexism, and the hierarchization of lives intersect. This historical system imposes subordination on cis and trans women, discredits their knowledge, and delegitimizes their forms of organization, sustaining isolation and silencing. In response, collective experiences affirm practices of solidarity, care, and resistance, in which political subjectivity is constructed on a daily basis. For decolonial and intersectional feminist theorists, in dialogue with Community Psychology, confronting violence happens collectively, horizontally, and dialogically, when subjects analyze their realities, become politically educated, and build networks of solidarity and care. Thus, women's collectives become spaces for mutual recognition and empowerment in the face of gender-based violence. Therefore, we ask the following question: How do women's groups/collectives act in the construction of social support networks and in the processes of political subjectivation to confront gender violence in peripheral contexts of the city of Fortaleza and the Cariri region? Therefore, our general objective is to understand how women's collectives act in the construction of social support networks and in the processes of political subjectivation to confront gender violence in peripheral contexts. For the specific objectives, we have aligned four objectives: 1) To evaluate the processes of violence experienced by women who are members of women's collectives; 2) To identify how the social support networks of women's collectives are organized; 3) To understand the meanings of social support networks in women's collectives based on women's experiences; 4) To understand how awareness-raising processes in women's collectives favor the emergence of political subjects and practices of empowerment in the face of different forms of violence. To achieve these results, we propose a critical feminist qualitative methodology inspired by decolonial and intersectional practices. This process was divided into three stages: first, we mapped women's collectives in the city of Fortaleza, identifying 34; in the second, after accepting participation, I met with members of five groups/collectives and conducted interviews with five representatives in order to bring to light the history of the collective; and, in the third stage, four thematic groups were formed with members of four groups/collectives, totaling 46 women. The interviews were conducted individually, by group. Subsequently, the interviews and thematic groups were systematized and analyzed based on a critical and situated reading, inspired by intersectional and decolonial feminist epistemologies, with the support of Atlas.ti software for organizing the narrative material. The results revealed that confronting gender-based violence and violence against women is not based solely on institutional responses, but is strengthened by social support networks and alliances between women who collectively transform their experiences of pain into political action. The collectives interviewed, Coletivo Vozes, Mulheres que se Amam, Sta. Terezinha do Tancredo Neves, Movimento Nacional das Cidadãs Posithivas/Ce, and Frente de Mulheres do Cariri, are configured as territories of political subjectivation, resistance, and creation, where strengthening, care, solidarity, and coalition are intertwined as practices of maintaining life and producing political subjects. It was observed that, in these spaces, the sharing of experiences of violence operates as a device for opposition consciousness and subjective reorganization. Through practices of mutual listening, circulation of knowledge, and collective action, suffering is reframed as a source of solidarity and mobilization. Women reinvent forms of political care, articulating affections, spiritualities, and community practices that go beyond the limits of state assistance. Concrete coping strategies also emerge, such as support among mothers in contexts of criminalization and poverty, welcoming women living with HIV, and creating safe spaces for coexistence and feminist training. It can be concluded that the experiences of these collectives affirm the centrality of solidarity networks and the construction of alternatives to institutional modes of coping, highlighting that social transformation occurs through relationships and coalitions. Collective strengthening thus reveals itself not only as a response to violence, but as a continuous form of reinvention of life and daily insurgency against the structures of coloniality and oppression. Tipo: Tese Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86413 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/85361 Título: “Quem traz no corpo a marca, Maria, Maria”: os impactos da fome nas trajetórias das mulheres em situação de rua Autor(es): Dias, Thamara Barbosa Teixeira Abstract: Brazilian social development, based on racism and violence, reproduces dependent capitalism, causing even greater inequalities. These are increasingly accentuated due to the concentration of income and land in the hands of a few. In this scenario, hunger and homelessness have become a reality for many Brazilians. Women are subjected to even greater violations that intersect social markers. The city of Fortaleza, immersed in its contradictions, while representing the most developed capital in the Northeast, ranks fifth among cities with the most homeless people in Brazil. The intersection of such vulnerabilities, extreme poverty, homelessness, hunger, and the socially imposed place of women, has direct consequences on the lives of a portion of society. The question then arises: how does hunger impact the life trajectories of homeless women in the city of Fortaleza? Thus, the overall objective of this research is to understand how hunger impacts the life trajectories of homeless women in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará. Thus, the overall objective of the research is to understand how hunger impacts the life trajectories of homeless women in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará. The specific objectives are to map the trajectories of homeless women; analyze the meanings of hunger for homeless women; and identify ways in which women on the streets resist hunger. To meet these objectives, the qualitative research was conducted at Casa da Sopa, a partner institution of the Community Psychology Center (NUCOM), which plays a fundamental role in assisting the homeless population. Women over the age of 18 who were homeless or recovering from homelessness, who had lived on the streets for at least six months, and who participated in some activity at Casa da Sopa participated in the research. The methodological tools were participant observation and semi-structured interviews. Participant observations took place in the women's group, Madalenas, developed by Casa da Sopa in partnership with NUCOM, and during the distribution of meals at lunchtime. For analysis, the data were submitted, with the help of Atlas Ti software, to Thematic Content Analysis. The categories analyzed were life trajectories and arrival on the streets; being a woman on the streets; hunger Abstract and food; and multidimensional poverty. In this way, it was possible to understand, based on the women's life stories, that poverty and difficulties in acquiring food were always present in their trajectories, influencing dimensions such as health, education, work and income, the subjective dimension, and human rights. In this way, hunger creates absences and silences, but finds ways of coping and solidarity in the community. Tipo: Dissertação Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/85361 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z