Recasamento e seus afetos: a expectativa feminina

Abstract

Despite the many advances in gender policies and in women's conquest of spaces, spaces that are due to them, but very evaded, they still face resistance to the rise and imposition of their being as a subject of rights and worthy of all justice and equity. It is no exception to this, themes such as those that gravitate around divorce. Therefore, when trying to understand the universe of women who have experienced divorce or marital separation and nurture expectations of remarriage, it is clear that the topic is scarce in academic literature, making important affections invisible. This study seeks to shed light on such affections as an instrument to minimize injustices and imprisonment by so many social devices.We sought, therefore, to identify the way in which divorced/separated women, who intend to remarry, are situated in this context, in this gap between past and future, and how they are affected. Which unfolds into three specific objectives: to give visibility to the affections suffered by the women interviewed, hidden by social devices; describe how remarriage expectations occur in divorced/separated women; identify how the interviewees feel affected by society within this context. For this, three women, aged between 26 and 60 years, divorced/separated for at least 2 years, mothers, residing in the metropolitan region of Salvador, Bahia, who expressed a desire to marry again, were interviewed. These were chosen from the researcher's network of relationships. The instrument was a semi-structured interview, whose data were submitted to Bardin's Content Analysis. The results, observed from three macro axes: affections, expectations and societies, pointed to multiple forms of affectations experienced by the participants, making visible sufferings that escape the verbal field and that, therefore, are paired with many forms of injustice, among them, the economic character, the emotional damage and the responsibilities and obligations linked to the almost absolute custody of the children.