Retratos da solidão: Sofrimentos e moralidades femininas na velhice

Abstract

During the years 1970, chacretes - a group of sexy dancers - were prominent on television. In our days, they have more than sixty years old. This paper examines the life trajectory of this first generation. The aim of this article intends to discuss these women's loneliness experiences. It can be said that this emotion is a constant theme in the literature devote to aging and, at the same time, almost absent. This paradox establishes itself, because, while studies of active life of older people, loneliness emerges as a topic without sufficient researches. Thus, this paper wants to contribute toward an ethnography of female loneliness in old age. Being alone only makes sense under certain social conditions, especially when there are some social difference markers, such as age, gender, sexuality and class, directly articulated to this emotional experience.