Usuários de crack em situação de rua – características de gênero

摘要: The increase in the use of crack cocaine constitutes a challenge to public health Brazil. objectives this article are identify how gender relations constituted daily lives users, and analyze dynamics that permeate construction these relationships involving exchange power. This is qualitative, descriptive, exploratory study phenomenological orientation. data was collected from users living on streets Manguinhos community city Rio de Janeiro. Eight focus groups (n = 31) were conducted there two individual interviews between June August 2011. In groups, reports young men women differed terms establishment bonds affection; role attributed as an operator conflict mediation; body exchange/prostitution; generation care offspring. Some shifts observed with respect traditional hierarchical arrangements gender. established research reveals it not possible point simply perpetrators or victims. What emerges analysis plural fluid universe, which permanent construction, sometimes favor men.