Resumen

GARCIA, Juliana Silva; SOUZA, Leonardo Lemos de  y  SILVA, Yasmin Aparecida Cassetari da. Pandemic and social production of mental suffering in women. Rev. Psicol. UNESP [online]. 2021, vol.20, n.1, pp.226-248.  Epub 22-Nov-2024. ISSN 1984-9044.  https://doi.org/10.5935/1984-9044.20210013.

The aim of this paper is to discuss briefly the possible negative effects of COVID-19 public health emergency on women’s mental health. Considering that both a pandemic and its social consequences act as potential generators of psychic suffering – as recent literature and feminist authors suggest–, we question some structural violences permeating into Brazilian women’s subjectification processes and how these violences are aggravated by the present context. We call attention to the worsening of social inequalities, such as machism, racism, LGTBphobia and poverty, since women are affected by them in different ways. We conclude by putting under the spotlight the fact that more studies recognizing the importance of genre to both the subject construction and the experience of mental suffering are needed.

Palabras llave : mental suffering; pandemic; women.

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