O uso dos enunciados de feminino pelo Programa Criança Feliz, do Governo Federal, de 2016 a 2021, por meio da noção de família como dispositivo para a promoção ou tutela da cidadania no âmbito da saúde pública.

Abstract

The present work sought to analyze how the enunciates of the feminine were used by the Happy Child Program, of the Federal Government, from 2016 to 2021, through the notion of family in the context of public health. This is a documentary research under the theoretical and methodological orientation of Michel Foucault's discourse analysis. Starting from the notion of health as a result of the social conditions in which people live, work, and relate to each other, we adopt as a compass the commitment to social change assumed by critical social psychology, supported by the discussions of intersectional feminism to understand the structures that sustain the power relations that produce the analyzed statements. The study was divided into three parts: Initially, a narrative review of the literature was conducted, based on the pre-formulated research problem and established criteria, of studies referring to the field of intersectional and health policies, and their interface with human rights, from the year 2012 to 2021, for a recognition of the use of the feminine in the field in a more generalized way. The incidence of a supposed Christian moral under the public policies of the national territory was perceived, as well as the return to biologicism in relation to gender issues reverberating in a constant return to the maternal device from the use of the sexuality device by public policies often anchored in a notion of heterosexual family. In addition, the universal subject undertaken by human rights is observed as a factor in the (re)production of norms that produce violence. In the second instance, the analysis of Law No. 13,257, of March 8, 2016, the Legal Framework for Early Childhood, was carried out. The document establishes principles and guidelines for the formulation and implementation of public policies linked to early childhood. Understanding its relevance in the field of intersectoral health policies in addressing gender issues, we seek to analyze the emergence of possible subject positions that emerge from this document by the implementation of new policies regarding the caregivers of early childhood subjects. The use of feminine statements associated to a notion of nuclear heterosexual family was verified, which invisibilizes the diversity of existing families, besides not considering or encouraging the variation of parental roles as well as the multiplicity of who carries out the tasks of early childhood care. Finally, the respective decrees that implement, consolidate, and establish changes to the Happy Child Program were analyzed, seeking to investigate their production of effects based on what is enunciated as feminine in the documents. The analysis showed that the document uses enunciations of femininity that conform to binary gender logics by reinforcing the maternal device and the notion of a heteropatriarchal family. The practices point to an unaccountability of the state in what concerns early childhood care, anchored on the premise that such functions are inherent to that which is declared feminine.