Leitura, apropriação de saberes e transformação pessoal: relações subjetivas e intersubjetivas a partir das perspectivas de mulheres pertencentes a clubes de leitura

Abstract

It aims to examine reading as a potential tool for personal change, based on woman perspectives. It seeks to investigate the factors that determine the knowledge appropriation at reading experiences and their sharing at reading clubs as potential tool for personal change of women readers. The theoretical approach of this dissertation derives from the epistemological relationship between psychic, phenomenological and symbolic studies. It considers the reflections of the psychic investigations of Michèle Petit and Nicolas Roubakine, John Budd’s phenomenological studies and the symbolic dimensions pointed out by Pierre Bourdieu. This research is exploratory in nature and uses a qualitative approach through empirical interventions at the Leia Mulheres reading club. Semi-structured interviews are conducted with two reading mediators and three participants of the reading club, based on the technique of topical life story, in order to identify and analyze reading experiences as potential tools for personal change. As a result, it infers the potential for personal change via reading experiences from the new possibilities of coping with the crisis contexts of the interviewees and from the expansion of their reflections on the reality around them. In the final considerations, it postulates reading experiences as a means of production, appropriation and interaction of individuals with the knowledge produced and circulated in subjective and intersubjective reading experiences, in order to enable the application of this knowledge in the lives of women readers as potentials for personal change.