"O segundo sexo" e a análise do comportamento: ilustrações da desigualdade de gênero a partir de contingências de reforçamento na infância

Abstract

In her book "The Second Sex", Simone de Beauvoir talks about the female condition in the current society, trying to understand what factors lead to the female sex's oppression and its interferences on women's daily interactions and pshycological health, criticizing internalist notions such as that there is a "female nature". Based on these views, it's possible to make a link to some of radical behaviorism's concepts to a better understanding of the female situation in society, which cultural variables are key to the maintenance of the female oppression and how it is possible for Behavioral Analysis to help to advance the feminist movement's demands. This paper dedicates itself to a reinterpretation of the different scenarios described by Simone de Beauvoir based on behavioral analysis, highlighting possible approaches between feminism and behavioral analysis so that both can benefit in their respective goal of improving society. Parts of the chapter related to childhood were selected from the second volume of the book, as well as behavior-analytical citations that could explain them. By the end of the research it was found that most of the female contingencies are ruled by punitive contingencies or excessively strict rules, both phenomenons that have as consequence repertoire shortening, besides many others psychological damages