Apropriação das mulheres no Brasil: uma análise feminista e antirracista das consequências materiais do capitalismo dependente

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze the process of appropriation of women in Brazil from its material consequences, that is, domestic work and violence against women. More specifically, we analyze: i) the relationship between primitive capital accumulation, the appropriation of women and the formation of the working class in Brazil; ii) how the sexual and racial division of labor determines the overexploitation of the labor force in Brazil; iii) how patriarchal and racist relations structure the dependent capitalism in the Brazilian reality; iv) the foundations and dynamics of domestic work and violence against women. We ground violence against women and domestic work through a theoretical and historical analysis that connects the process of primitive accumulation and overexploitation of the labor force with the patriarchal and racial appropriation of women. Combined with this analysis, we also conducted a documentary research, through data collection, at IBGE, IPEA, AMB, CFEMEA, OXFAM, on the rates of violence against women and working conditions and relations, especially domestic work. Our conclusion is that in Brazil, with its particularity of being a dependent capitalist country, primitive accumulation and the formation of the working class are structured by a patriarchal and racist appropriation of women. This is a phenomenon organized through the sexual and racial division of labor and has material consequences for women, such as violence and domestic work.