Mulheres em movimentos de bairro: lutando por direitos

Abstract

In this paper was analyzed the participation of women in neighborhood movements, precisely community associations, knowing that these are considered popular urban social movements, because it is aimed demonstrations before everything related to infrastructure improvements neighborhoods located on the outskirts of cities. This study was conducted through interviews with three women who participated in the Neighborhood Renaissance Community Association in Santa Maria between 1997 and 2003, a mixed association, where women and men participated. It was problematized the participation of women in this community association, comprising part of the story of their struggles under the watchful specific gender, assuming that both the acquisition of rights as the rise of women in public spaces and claim are consequences of fights and not simply an inevitable historical process. Inquiries about the ways used by them to articulate and achieve their goals as well, which the horizon of these goals, guided the research. For this, was used the method of oral history, the literature review and the historiographical analysis.