Planejamento familiar e emancipação das mulheres no Brasil: uma reflexão sob as lentes da psicologia feminista

Abstract

Unequal gender relations still make women responsible for caring for the home, the family, and even family planning. Although such relationships permeate all women, inequality also manifests between them because of the intersectional constitution of identities and the inseparability between gender, race, and class violence. Therefore, this study aims to promote a reflection on family planning and women's access to emancipation processes in the Brazilian context, focusing on the contributions of Feminist Psychology and intersectional perspectives. Based on this, the present work consists of a narrative literature review that considers both nationally produced scientific articles and publications on government websites that help in understanding the theme. It was only in the 1980s that family planning became an action to promote women's health in Brazil, given its history marked by a control bias, which, after becoming a constitutional right, is crossed by the difficulty of implementation that ends up promoting unequal access to these actions among women in Brazil. Therefore, the psychologist, from the formative process, needs to develop an intersectional perception so that, in practice, regardless of the context in which they work, they do not reproduce stereotypes, prejudices, and inequalities that go against the grain of an emancipatory project for Brazilian women.