Seu feminismo cola na favela? A incidência do pensamento feminista no cotidiano de mulheres das classes trabalhadoras no bairro de Felipe Camarão, Natal RN

Abstract

The present work aims to examine the presence of elements relevant to the feminist debate among working class women, specifically residents of the Felipe Camarão neighborhood, a periphery of the capital of Potiguar. The background that delimits the work is related to the emergence and development of heteropatriarchy as a system of gender segregation and domination, oppression and exploitation of women and its subsequent reconfiguration along with capitalism and racism, which will constitute themselves in the heteropatriarchalracist order. -capitalist, from which a specific exploited subject emerges: racialized working women. The work points out, in the face of the constitution of that order, the recurrent resistance of the oppressed subjects and prioritizes the response of the feminist movement. The research from which this work originates has a quantitative-qualitative approach. Bibliographic survey and empirical data collection techniques were used for its accomplishment. The field research was carried out with working women living in the Felipe Camarão neighborhood, one of the communities with the highest concentration of poverty in the City of Natal, state of RN. The survey heard twenty-six women, eighteen young women who were between twenty and thirty-five years old and with high schooling and eight adult and elderly women who were between thirty-five and sixty years old and a low level of schooling. . Data collected in a face-to-face meeting with women were used, as well as in a virtual questionnaire and finally in two semi-structured faceto-face interviews. Data analysis showed that the women heard, even though they knew about historical advances on women's struggle and considered the social importance of these transformations, demonstrate difficulties in understanding the path taken by these struggles, with an evident lack of knowledge and/or difficulty in understanding. of basic elements for the feminist movement, such as the meaning of machismo and feminism and their interrelationships, especially for older women with less access to educational development. Finally, the study found that despite the undoubted historical relevance of feminism for the transformation of women's lives, open dialogue and the politicization of the debate with working women - especially those who are outside the privileged spaces of knowledge production - is still important. a weak point in the performance of the movement.