Iniciação à sexualidade na construção da identidade das mulheres: o caso do Bairro de Nhamaibwé, no Município de Dondo.

Abstract

Our main work, entitled Initiation to sexuality in the construction of female identity, has as main objective to analyze the influence of initiation rites in the construction of female identity. The case study was carried out in the Municipality of Dondo, specifically in the neighborhood of Nhamaiabwe. Based on the semi-structured interviews, it was possible for us to understand aspects of the sexual initiation process that women go through, such as: the stretching of the small vaginal lips that begins around the age of seven and occurs during innocence even after they are married, the fertility rituals they go through with the onset of their first menstruation. The work is divided into four parts: we have the introduction where we present a brief history about the initiation rites in Anthropology and its relation to sexuality; we have the motivation and justification of the theme, then we bring our research problem in which we present our concern, then we have the hypothesis where we move forward with the answer to our problems and the objectives that are intended to be achieved. Next, we describe the methodology and the characterization of the study site. In the final part, we outline the final considerations: where we maintain that female initiation rites contribute to the construction of women's sexual identity, instill values ​​related to subordination in women, they also aim to make them potentially capable of providing sexual pleasure to themselves and to its partners. We also found that the beginning of the menstrual cycle marks the biological transformation that is normally considered a time for the formalization of the beginning of sexual activity, a sign of fertility and the possibility of reproduction. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)