Karla Galvão Adrião

O movimento feminista brasileiro na virada do século XX: reflexões sobre sujeitos políticos na interface com as noções de democracia e autonomia

Este texto discute as tensoes em torno da legitimidade dos sujeitos politicos feministas brasileiros, na interface com as nocoes de democracia e autonomia. Para tanto, realiza sua analise em consonância com dados da etnografia do 10o Encontro Feminista Latino-Americano e do Caribe, realizado em 2005, em Sao Paulo. Esse espaco e tido como importante seara de constituicao dos pensamentos e acoes do movimento feminista no Brasil e na America Latina.

Gender and feminisms: theoretical-epistemological considerations and methodological impacts

The present article analyzes how the relationship between theory and politics takes place in the Brazilian feminist field and how this articulation gains strength in academia, setting up a critical position that is characteristic as a theoretical and methodological perspective. Among its fundamental axes, there are the theoretical-epistemological and methodological concerns, as it is understood that it is not possible to perform feminist science, except from an engaged, politically committed position. Thus, the concept of gender and its impacts on the theoretical and political fields problematizes and analyzes the methodological implications in this context of scientific research. Such analyses enable the deduction that the feminist debate is not separate from that of the scientific field in general, concerning the statute of science and the ways of generating knowledge, as also presented in the field of Social Psychology.

IX. Notes on the constitution of “feminist youth” in Brazil

Our aim with this paper is to present the emergence of a new group of political subjects in the Brazilian feminist movement: young feminists. Throughout this text, we regard the ‘‘feminist movement’’ as a plural entity insofar as we point to the various groups and political subjects that make up the various currents of Brazilian feminism. We understand ‘‘political subjects’’ to be those who are constituted discursively by both power relations and the values defended by one or more social groups to which they belong (Melucci, 2001). This subject arose out of my (Adrião) doctoral research into the Brazilian feminist movement at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. A few years later, I (Barbosa-Araujo) began a Master’s dissertation in Psychology, studying young people in the Brazilian feminist movement and, since then, we have begun to work together in this field. Currently, we are middle-class feminists from the Northeast region of Brazil and involved in the women’s movement in the State of Pernambuco. I (Barbosa-Araujo), still considered within the movement to be a young feminist, work with public policy for women at the State of Pernambuco’s Department of Women’s Affairs, in the field of gender training. I (Adrião) am not a young feminist and work as a feminist academic at a public university. These specifics position us politically as well as ethically, and inform our theoretical and methodological perspectives (Haraway, 1995; Scott, 1999); our own experiences pass through and produce spaces of alterity in our meetings with young feminists.

“Menina, fecha as pernas” e outras questões de gênero

Este artigo se propoe a discutir questoes referentes ao controle do corpo feminino e os entraves provocados no (nao) exercicio da autonomia [i] das mulheres (sobre seu corpo e sua sexualidade), atentando para os discursos que dao sustentacao para esse tipo de opressao [ii] tao entranhada em nosso cotidiano. Parte da analise de duas oficinas sobre direitos sexuais e direitos reprodutivos com mulheres e homens jovens que fazem parte do Clube de Maes de uma Comunidade na Periferia do Recife – PE, cujo nome ficticio e Alto do Paraiso. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, com analise tematica dos dialogos produzidos nas oficinas, a partir de um referencial feminista pos-estruturalista (Butler, 2003; Haraway,1995). Pretende-se com este artigo debater sobre questoes em torno do saber psi no campo da saude e dos direitos sexuais e reprodutivos, questionando as regulacoes de genero que controlam e normatizam o exercicio da sexualidade por parte de mulheres e homens jovens.