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Total Authors: 2
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| Affiliation: | [1] Universidade de São Paulo. Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades - Brasil
[2] USP. Escola de Enfermagem. Programa Interunidades em Enfermagem - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 2
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Interface (Botucatu); v. 26, 2022-10-07. |
| Abstract | |
The aim of this emic study of alcoholism was to understand how this problem is conceived and experienced by women attending a women-only Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting. We conducted an ethnographic study with a women’s AA group in São Paulo, Brazil. Alcoholism is linked to gender asymmetries, which establish a difference between men and women in relation to drinking. Women-only AA meetings therefore possess a political dimension that counterposes AA’s patriarchal culture by providing women with a morally and politically unique gendered space that allows them to share and signify their experiences and, in this way, treat their alcoholism. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/18535-9 - Alcoholism, disease and gender: representations and practices on the use of alcohol and alcoholism of women, members of Alcoholics Anonymous |
| Grantee: | Edemilson Antunes de Campos |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |