A pobreza menstrual no Brasil: uma afronta direta aos direitos constitucionais fundamentais femininos de saúde, dignidade e educação

Abstract

The present essay publishes the results of a monographic research, which investigates Menstrual Poverty as not only a recurring phenomenon, but a direct injury to the Fundamental Rights and Guarantees established in the Brazilian legal system, such as health, freedom and female education. The analysis is carried out through studies on the lack of menstrual dignity of women, girls, transsexual men and non-binary people in situations of menstrual vulnerability, as well as the constitutional provision regarding the dignity of the human person and the Public Policies that provide for its implementation. Therefore, a thorough analysis of menstrual poverty in its different forms of manifestation is lead out, from the lack of adequate menstrual products, to the healthy basic sanitation conditions and structures necessary for the hygiene of poor women and girls during their menstrual period. Menstrual poverty will also be studied as an arm of symbolic violence against women, through the web of male domination in society. The main methodological used for the research, was the orientation Reflexive sociology, thus having an exploratory nature and a qualitative approach, drawing on techniques such as discourse and content analysis, as well as bibliographical research and data collection.