Protagonismo feminino no protestantismo rural brasileiro: a parteiragem tradicional de Mãe Bela como lógica contra-hegemônica de atendimento à gestação, ao parto e ao puerpério

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Flor, Lauana Ananias
• Orientador(a): Wirth, Lauri Emilio
• Banca de defesa: Ribeiro , Lidice Meyer Pinto, Esperandio , Mary Rute, Paula , Blanches de, Souza , Sandra Duarte de
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Metodista de Sao Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Ciencias da Religiao
• Departamento: Ciencias da Religiao:Programa de Pos Graduacao em Ciencias da Religiao
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: protestantismo; parteiras tradicionais; protagonismo feminino; feminismo decolonial; saúde
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Protestantism; traditional midwives; female protagonism; decolonial feminism; health
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS
• Link de acesso: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/2259

It is increasingly necessary to reflect on the subjectivities that concern the traditional midwifery profession. As a contribution to this emerging debate, this research has as main objective to investigate the life trajectory of a Presbyterian midwife in the midst of her social performance context. Odete da Costa Vale (1907 - 1983) was affectionately known as Mãe Bela. In addition to highlighting the female protagonism with relative autonomy and significant displacements in relation to traditional Protestantism in a small community in the interior of Minas Gerais, it seeks to point out the midwifery of Mãe Bela as another counter-hegemonic logic of care for pregnancy, childbirth and to the puerperium by emphasizing her faith practices and health care. It is assumed that religious practices mediate the craft of traditional midwifery as an accessory force of singular importance, providing the midwives with characteristics of differentiated attention and care that give them, together with other variants and knowledge, credibility and community recognition. In this sense, having post-colonial theories as a theoretical-methodological option, specifically the perspective of decolonial feminism with the apparatus of thematic oral history, we seek to demonstrate, through subalternized epistemic places, the ways of practice religion linked to the experiences of a traditional midwife with regard to the relationship between pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium.(AU)