Abstract
Objective: To identify essential elements that outline the needs of care and health of quilombola women, from the perspective of the intersectionality of gender, race, body and politics, evidenced in the scientific literature. Method: This is an integrative review of the literature, whose search was made in the databases: VHL, EBSCO, LILACS, SciELO, MEDLINE, Web of Science, Scopus, Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA) and in the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations and Portal of CAPES Journals. The descriptors "Quilombola Woman", "Black Woman", "Vulnerability", "Health", "Health Conditions of Ethnic Groups", "Care Practices", "Self-Care", whose combinations were used with boolean operators AND and OR. Inclusion criteria were: articles, theses and dissertations available free of charge in databases for full reading in Portuguese or English, derived from research conducted in Brazil and published between 2008 and 2018. Publications in editorial format, debates and reviews were excluded. Results: Twenty-three publications inserted in national databases were analyzed, which outlined the memories of the ways of life of quilombola women, pointing to the saga of resistance and the fight against racism, patriarchy, sexism, lack of access to health and disrespect for their cultural practices of care throughout the ten years of the National Policy of Integral Health of the Black Population. Conclusion: The publications indicate the social inequities experienced by quilombola women, a reflection of the daily oppressions generated by intersectionality, requires greater attention from health policies and social rights.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/methofocusinterv1-097