Representação do comer para as detentas de uma unidade prisional de Trindade- Go

Abstract

This study aimed to explore the meanings, affective, emotional and identity dimensions of the act of eating, through the representations of eating among women in a female prison system. The representation of eating is addressed here with a view to understanding the coexistence and symbolic aspects present in private prisons. This is a descriptive qualitative study. Individual interviews were conducted with the help of a semi-structured questionnaire. Sixteen inmates participated in the sample. The interviews were recorded and later described based on the content analysis method. From the reading of the answers to the interviews, four categories of analysis were created: Meanings of eating; Affective memories and food; Beliefs and Identity relations and eating. Eating for prisoners in the prison context involves different meanings, eating practices, emotional and affective factors, and also the identity related to eating. In this system it is seen that the deprivation of coexistence in society is linked to the lack of current food affectivity, considering that all the memories mentioned by the inmates were from past coexistence, with this eating is no longer considered something related to affectivity, being considered only as a biological issue. However, when related to affectivity, it comes as memories of a past era.