Trajetórias de mulheres HIV+ no movimento político de HIV/Aids no Estado do Paraná

Abstract

This article aims at understanding changes in the lives of HIV+women in Paraná State after their insertion into political HIV/Aids activism, the motivations that led them to mobilization, and how gender perspective in experiencing this disease interferes with their motivations and political attitudes. Theoretically and methodologically drawing on the anthropological approach of the narrative as a form of interpretation of individual and collective experience, interviews with 13 HIV+ women were accomplished and analyzed. The narratives reveal the notion of the person as a privileged category which consists of three distinguished though imbricated aspects: the person related to preeminence values of the whole and not the individual, embodiment and political participation. Such aspects are articulated with gender and gender is linked to a political dimension, which gives specific contours to these women's activism.

Keywords

• Mulher
• AIDS
• Participação política