![]() ![]() The medicalization of the female body (Vieira, 2003) reports the case of a patient who, asked about how many times he should seek the doctor, replied: Every day! (P.11). It is important to identify the role of technological developments and their complexities - which do not allow lower-income classes to take decisions in regard to their own bodies and reproductive health - and schooling, specially through science and physical education classes whereby upper-class predominance is sustained. Through this process, male patriarchal and class predominance is maintained and the rift of social and gender inequalities grow wider. This study discusses, through bibliographic research, the recurrence of naturalization as basis for the medicalization of the female body, as a means of social control through biological reproduction, whereby behavioral standards, social class, ethnic and race differences are rearranged/redefined. ICollege of Education, Biology sector, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Pessoa Endemy Department, National Scholl of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - Cruz Institute, Scientific Literacy sector, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ![]() ![]() ![]() Tonia Costa I Eduardo Navarro Stotz II Danielle Grynszpan III Maria do Carmo Borges de Souza IV Naturalization and medicalization of the female body: social control through reproduction * ![]()
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