THROUGH THEIR EYES: THE INTERPRETATION OF THE LANDSCAPE BY WOMEN EXPERIENCING HEALTH-DISEASE PROCESSES

Abstract

The present text aimed to reflect on the interpretation of the landscape through the vision of women living health-illness processes, specifically with HIV/AIDS, considering their intersectionalities, experiences and spatial practices in the city from the perspective of Feminist and Gender Geographies. Under these premises, an activity was carried out with women from the Plug and Play group of the Prudentine Association for the Prevention of AIDS (APPA) in a joint manner, in which questions were stimulated to work on the perception of the landscape of these women in their daily lives, with the intention of highlighting the main relationships they establish between memory and practices in space. This activity was coordinated in order to build the representations, as well as to encourage the debates that were directed by means of questions that comprised a semi-structured script. In this sense, it was possible through different examples to highlight the central categories in the lives of these women, such as work, spheres of conviviality and relationships, their daily journeys, and their memories, which were interpreted through the elaboration of multiple constructed landscapes.