Abstract

SILVA, Márcia Alves  and  CARDOSO, Adriana Lessa. Biographic pathways of feminist women acting in social movements. Conjectura: filos. e Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.25, edossie.17. ISSN 2178-4612.  https://doi.org/10.18226/21784612.v25.dossie.17.

The article looks for reflecting on the trajectory of feminist women in the city of Pelotas – RS, from the narratives of these women who were, in a way, precursors, highlighting their experiences in political activism. We understand that every social movement act in human formation, so it is an educational act. We use the decolonial feminist framework as a perspective linked to the resistance of the globalized world capitalist system. We sought our theoretical foundations especially from the authors Heleieth Saffioti (2004), Ochy Curiel (2007), Marcela Lagarde and de los Rios (2015), Patricia Hill Collins (2017) and bell hooks (2019), to discuss the historical condition of women, related to social class, gender, race, sexual division of labor and social empowerment. The methodology that has been chosen has a qualitative nature and as a data source is composed of biographical narratives. The set of narratives we present in this writing consisted of individual narrative interviews with four women who have been political militants in the 1980s and who are currently over 60 years old. These women took part in institutionalized militancy spaces, such as the Municipal Council of Women, Autonomous Group of Women from Pelotas (GAMP), Brazilian Union of Women (UBM) or unions. In a recent survey considering work in the city of Pelotas, a large situation of vulnerability was found, summing up more than 62,000 people working in precarious or informal activities. In this context, the difficulties of a socially unequal city, which leads to the creation of confrontation groups, and it is in this social space that the women in this study act. In the analysis procedure, the categories intersectionality, sexual division of labor and social empowerment were highlighted. As a result, we underscore the importance of decolonial feminist epistemologies in learning and understanding the history of women who helped building the feminist movement in relation to women’s rights. We also highlight the social empowerment of the research collaborators, as they are women who have a daily relationship with the city; they work, dialogue with other women in vulnerable situations, and are critically aware that through transformative and feminist Education they can contribute to gender equity.

Keywords : Feminism; Activism; Social empowerment; Decolonial studies.

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