Abstract

CASTRO, Mary G.. Alquimia de categorias sociais na produção dos sujeitos políticos. Rev. Estud. Fem. [online]. 1992, vol.00, n.00, pp.57-73. ISSN 1806-9584.

This article discusses how women activists in the domestic servants' trade union in Salvador, Bahia, produce themselves and are produced as political subjects. Based on social practices, Castro analyzes social categories such as gender, race, and generation and their interweaving with social class relations. The author identifies multiple determining factors administering rebellion; based on a gender approach, she questions the universalization and essentialisms of social categories. This feminist methodology recovers the Greek meaning of the word "theory" (theorein) - to look at or examine - thus departing from universal subjects and self-referred theoretical frameworks.

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