Fonoaudiologia e história oral: uma narrativa sobre uma profissão construída por mulheres

Abstract

This dissertation had as an aim to tell the history of a research which tried to find out the reasons why Phonoaudiology has become a profession for women. With such a purpose, according to the bases of the oral history, reports on the profession trajectory of twelve phonoaudiologists established in Mogi das Cruzes, a São Paulo state town, were collected and analyzed. The indications of the feminine predominance in this field, which arose from the particularity of the trajectory of each of the interviewed woman, were re-evaluated under the light of the literature about the history of women and of Phonoaudiology. Under such a focus, this predominance appears as a historical phenomenon, present since the genesis of the phonoaudiological field, which reflects the clash between playing the most traditional feminine roles and taking on a professional career. Therefore, conceived as an activity directed to the assistance of children, centered on an office and with flexible working-hours, Phonoaudiology has become a professional choice which makes the feminine double working-hours, viable. The development of the marks of a profession for women, such as lown wages and the experience of professional subordination, end up reinforcing the predominance in question