Reprodução Social e Conservadorismo: a reatualização dos nexos patriarcais no governo do Presidente Jair Bolsonaro

Abstract

This dissertation broaches gender inequality through the perspective of political economy. We present reflections on gender inequality in a capitalist society, as well as its particularities that engender the totality of concrete reality. From exploratory research, we seek to undertake a theoretical effort to analyze the exploitation of social class in bourgeois society, an approach to the Theory of Social Reproduction and the characteristics that guide conservative thinking. With this in mind, we understand that the government of President Jair Bolsonaro, with connections to conservative thinking, contributes to the oppression of the female gender, reinforcing the common sense of the centrality of women in family care. For this, we used the methodology of qualitative research in a source of secondary data of bibliographic and documentary design. For the contribution of the documentary analysis, we carried out research to access social data, newspapers and magazines that demonstrate the ideological form of conservative thinking present in the government of Jair Bolsonaro that express gender inequality and its functionality within the family. The data were collected considering the time period from 2018 (presidential election) to 2022 (end of Jair Bolsonaro's government). In this regard, we hypothesized that conservative thinking is instrumentalized by the capitalist mode of production to deepen the exploitation of the working class through the deepening of gender inequality, in view of the centrality of social reproduction for the contradictory dynamics of the relationship between capital and work. Despite the non-exhaustion of the proposed hypothesis, it was possible to infer that the capitalist mode of production uses conservative thinking to maintain the social reproduction incorporated by the female gender and, with that, maintain progressive capital accumulation.