Tempo de amar: uma análise dos conflitos familiares das jovens de Boqueirão-PB.

Abstract

The intention of this work is to discuss how the way of life of young women in the city and in the rural area of Boqueirão-PB, is aimed at practices of conjugal union during youth. We focused our research on the reports of low-income young people in order to understand how they are influenced by social processes based on the local patriarchal tradition that leads them to a stable conjugal union. The empirical corpus of this research was composed of young people belonging to a state school in the city of Boqueirão-PB, inserted in a network where there is a predominance of the patriarchal family model. The school as belonging to the youth universe is present in this thesis as a space of sociability, as a fertile ground for the formation of identities, bonds and life plans of students. Through a qualitative approach, we seek to understand young women as social individuals who are agents of their own lives. In this way, we started a discussion about what makes these individuals leave school and leave their homes to be locked in a stable union. We found that the mother daughter relationship is permeated with conflicts brought about by an idealization of maternal love that mothers are unable to respond to. In view of this, we realize that the social structures that are behind the decisions for the moment of having a conjugal relationship privilege the power of the man over the woman. Young women trapped in expectations of freedom and life change choose a stable union as an escape from the domestic conflicts experienced in their family. Other themes that also permeate this empirical universe will be addressed such as the relationship of young women with their mothers, processes of empowerment through perceptions of power and gender inequality, among others.