Gender and health discourses: Debating PNAISH with users

Abstract

The objective of this study was to confront man's body as conceptualized by PNAISH with man's body performatized by male users of this policy in Basic Health Care (BHC) in Belo Horizonte. Using speech analysis and the theory of gender perfomativity, the corpus derived of the interviews with 9 men who use the BHC services was analyzed. The results highlighted gender performance which, consistent with PNAISH, is based on a genitalized body as a way of care resistance, as well as gender performance that transgress the perspectives of this policy. This study sought to encourage discussions about difficulties of men's integration to health policies.