“Como ficará a superioridade do homem?”: potencialidades de afetação e a identificação do ser mulher cientista

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to understand the process of affectation and production of the identification of women of the Licentiate in Chemistry course at the Federal Technological University of Paraná, and investigated how this process works in the production of a network of actors to different discourses in which elements / actors that are superimposed and articulated in their identification process as a female scientist. The documentary "Marie Curie: the mother of the radiation" was then screened so that the women's perceptions could be listed from the affectation by the documentary in question, followed by a qualitative analysis through a semistructured questionnaire, in the which we traverse the lines of the students, seeking to understand how the actors form a network, in view of the rearticulation of the elements that produce relatively durable forms of stabilization of being and being woman, as well as forms of interdiction of the scientist being. Faced with the documentary presented, various forms of affectation were presented by the students, articulating forms of discrimination and persecutions suffered, and often showed as affectation the episodes that portray Marie's dependence on her husband and counselor. In addition, several students have been shown to be affected by the speech of a journalist at the moment when Marie becomes the first woman to teach at the university of Sourbonne: "How will be the superiority of the man?". Then the network of actors, runs through an actor who aims to stabilize truths that naturalize the existence of women, identifying them in the impossibility of being scientists without their respective "men." But was the superiority of men unquestionable? Is it possible to denature this dependence? To do this, it is necessary to establish possibilities for rethinking this naturalization of the spaces in which women are present, in this articulated web of the depotentialization of women's identification, deconstructing predefined spaces for women that make it impossible for them to choose their paths.