The feminization of old age: representation and silencing of demands in the processes of women and the elderly lecturers

Abstract

Brazil has been experiencing a growing process of socialization in the management of old age, which has become a public issue. Within this process there is also the increasingly growing phenomenon of the feminization of old age. In this article, we discuss how the demands of older women are built and represented in the spaces of social participation that are part of the decision-making process of public policies targeted at women and the elderly. From the problematic of a possible depoliticization of the elderly women, the guiding question here is: "How are the elderly women represented in the deliberations of the national conferences of Politics for Women and Rights of the Elderly? From the documents analyzed with the qualitative feminist content analysis method, four main axes were evidenced, in relation to the elderly women: demographic, health, care and intersectional.

Keywords

• feminização da velhice
• conferências de políticas públicas
• plano nacional de política para as mulheres