Emma Goldman, feminista? Uma análise do pensamento da anarquista russa sobre a condição feminina no fim do século XIX e início do XX

Abstract

The dissertation consists of an analysis of the thought of the anarchist Emma Goldman about the female condition between the final years of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th century. In addition to the writings of the libertarian, it is based on the experiences she lived throughout her life, which drove her to campaigns in favor of human freedom, especially that of women, focused on the deconstruction of the social ties that would be responsible for the imprisonment. of female bodies. It reflects on Goldman's fight against the unequal system that generated a whole psychological, sexual, intellectual and physical enslavement of women, who became victims of a model of femininity that restricted their role to the home and their devotion and dedication to the male leader. It discusses the Goldmanian conceptions and their fight on different fronts in order to guarantee not only the end of social indifference towards women, but also the defense of their freedom, present, above all, in an assertive position on female emancipation. Inscribed in the field of Political History as it discusses a revolutionary proposal, the dissertation contemplates, in addition to a discussion of ideas, a study of gender, the primary form of power relations, thus defining itself as a tributary of the line of research Politics and Society.