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COUTINHO, Sabrine Mantuan dos Santos  e  MENANDRO, Paulo Rogério Meira. Conjugal and familial relations in the perspective of two generations of women: "but be endearing while it lasts". Psicol. clin. [online]. 2010, vol.22, n.2, pp. 83-106. ISSN 0103-5665.

This report is an extract of an extensive research which attempted to identify the social representation (SR) net established around being a woman in the family. It is centered on the conjugality question, attempting to verify if the conjugal and familial living experience suffered significant modifications after a period of approximately three decades, considering women of the same family, but from different generations. Twenty semi-structured narrative interviews were taken with women of low or medium social-economic strata: ten who had children during the 1960 decade (1^st generation), and 10 who had children during the nineties (2^nd generation), daughters of the first group. The interview allowed the participants to talk about their quotidian experiences and practices with respect to familial and conjugal contexts. In order to aggregate complementary procedures, the data were organized/analyzed using an adaptation of the phenomenological method for psychological investigation, and the Alceste software. The results pointed both continuities and ruptures between generations, expressive changes from one generation to the other being marked with respect to important aspects of the conjugal relationship. For example: the maintenance of the marriage ceases to be the main objective; the conjugal relations, in general, become more open; there is a reduction of the interdictions towards women; the feminine investment on the marriage now shares space with increased male interest.

Palavras-chave : conjugal relations; family; social representations; gender; intergenerational research.

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