This qualitative study had as its object the daily-life of women after being submitted to a histerectomy. Following this sense the phenomenological approach was chosen as methodological framework , supported by Martin Heidegger´ phenomenology. The deponents were twenty five women submitted to a histerectomy at HU/UFJF in 2006. The interpretative understanding, showed, under Hedegger perspective, that women´s daily-life after being submitted to histerectomy expresses itself in a movement that goes forward and backward for inauthenticity to an indication of properties and improperties. In the daily-life after the surgery is that she understands herself as being-there-with-the-other and revealing herself as "being-of-possibilities" in a self world. It showed that the assistential dynamics must be considered from the perspective of the subjectivity of the woman who will be submited to histerectomy.
Women's health; Nursing; Histerectomy; Qualitative research