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The present paper aims at characterizing the connubial relationship in terms of questions concerned with gender negotiation -or the impossibility of it -, conflicts and, violence as intervening elements in the reproductive health of low-income women.With this target in mind, a field-research, of the qualitative type, was carried out using the oral-thematic history technique with which 16 statements were obtained.The research was developed at the Eastward Area of São Paulo city, State of São Paulo, Brazil, on the Module 14 health post belonging to the Ermelindo Matarazzo PAS (Program for Health Assistance).With this material in hand, the analysis of the women's discourse was proceeded.In the paper's Discussion there is an attempt to articulate conceptions of power, sexuality and, gender starting from the supposition that either the agenda or the processes of negotiation, or even the impossibility of it, are able to be disclosed within the women's discourses and, as a consequence, the strategies used in, and the objects of, negotiation between the couples.The Life Space -deeply marked by innumerable social and gender inequalities, determining a low-quality of life and propitiating life experiences which characterize themselves much more by the absence than the presence of dialogues and negotiations between the couples, with innumerable acts of violence, including the connubial ones --intervenes in the reproductive process.Marriage is idealized as a space for living affectionate life experiences, shared with the partner, children and, family.There are circumstances in which the women's rights are profoundly disrespected, including in their reproductive rights, causing damages to the woman's health, in general, and to her reproductive health, in particular, depicting a form of connubial socialization in which the woman finds herself overloaded with the work carried out both inside and outside home, in a relationship characterized by historical subordination and domination, which if not traditional, it is surely hierarchical and unequal

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  Jane Keithley, Fred Robinson•Policy & Politics•2000

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