Feminismo de base comunitária: iniciativas que discutem questões de gênero na Maré (RJ)

Abstract

This thesis investigates Brazilian feminist community based efforts, which utilize creative pedagogies, to work on gender issues and violence against women (VCM) in the favelas of Maré. Rio de Janeiro. The research sought to study the issues, concepts, and motivations that guide the practices and educational dynamics of individuals and women 's groups in the effort to understand civil society s role in promoting gender equality. The initiatives studied include: Women's Reference Center of Maré-Carminha Rosa (CRMM-CR); The Gender and Sexuality Group of Fight for Peace (GS-LPP); The Maré de Sabores Project of the ONG Redes da Maré; the project MulheresAo Vento; workshops held at EspaçoCasulo. Located in four distinct communities, these initiatives were described and analyzed based on categories defined from reflections on data obtained through participant observation, semi-structured interviews and life histories. The experiences studied in this research focus on the perspectives of women from distinct territories, living in the peripheries of urban centers in Latin America, women who resist in contexts of violence and who, in the midst of these contexts, produce pedagogies that deconstruct and decolonize ways of thinking, and subsequently, changing gender biased attitudes.