A responsabilização das mulheres e o discurso da autonomia financeira no tocante a titularidade do Programa Bolsa Família: uma análise no Município de José da Penha - RN.

Abstract

This monograph is the result of a field research carried out in the city of José da Penha-RN, around the issue of the accountability of women holders of the Bolsa Família Program and the ideological discourse raised in the PBF, about the possible financial autonomy of women, after the receipt of the monetary transfer. We start from the premise that the ownership of the PBF - although positive, since it allows income for the beneficiaries - ends up corroborating the ratification of a logic that overloads the women who are holders, reinforcing a naturalization of women in private spaces, especially regarding caring for children and the home. We also understand that the PBF is not a mechanism capable of providing financial autonomy, considering that the monetary transfer is negligible in order to provide improvements in the families' financial expansion frameworks. This monograph aims to: Analyze the gender relations present in the Bolsa Família Program with regard to female ownership, and as specific objectives: to understand the family and its role in contemporary society. To apprehend the present contours formed by the Social Welfare services and the gender relations and To find out from the beneficiaries of the PBF the changes caused in their living conditions by the program. For this, we carried out a bibliographic study, referring to the Brazilian families and their functionality, as well as the protection of the State in relation to them; on the main theoretical categories that solidified the defense of the cited presupposition, such as: Gender, Patriarchy, Sex Division of Labor and Social Relations of Sex. In order to base our study and consolidate our research, we will carry out a field research with the beneficiary women who are part of the Coexistence and Strengthening of the Service of the Social Assistance Referral Center (CRAS) of the City of José da Penha. Recorded and semi-structured interviews were carried out with the purpose of gathering the "findings" of the research. Thus, we can understand that the female ownership of the PBF and its full responsibility for the PBF have a direct influence on the social relations between the sexes, which place women as the manager of domestic activities and care for the family, reproducing this presupposition not only for the private field, however, for all aspects of social life, including for social policies and programs