Banca de DEFESA: DÉBORA ELITA DE SOUSA SILVA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : DÉBORA ELITA DE SOUSA SILVA
DATE: 30/11/2021
TIME: 19:00
LOCAL: https://meet.google.com/nve-ptvo-how
TITLE:

CRITIC TO THE CONCEPTION OF EMPOWERMENT AND THE IMPLICATIONS ON THE FEMINIST STRUGGLES IN THE NEOLIBERAL CONTEXT

KEY WORDS:

Empowerment; Black Feminism; Class consciousness

PAGES: 110
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Serviço Social
SUBÁREA: Serviço Social Aplicado
SUMMARY:

This Master’s thesis is inserted in the research area: Sociability, Social Work and Social Politics, and in the research line: Ethic, Gender, Culture and Diversity. We proposed to analyse the empowerment conception and its inflexions over feminism in the neoliberal context. We started with the analysis of the theorical-political fundaments of the empowerment notion and its diferences and implications in relation to the class conciousness complex, and we problematized the female empowerment perspective from the way that it is proposed by the World Bank. The study object demanded the apprehension of theorical fundaments about sex patriarchal relations, consubstantial and coextensive to the class and ethic/race relations. Subsequently, we discuss about the historicity of feminist struggles for overcoming the sex opression in capitalism, whose materiality is expressed in work sexual division. It was yet necessary to analyze the genesis of the black feminist thought and the particularities which characterize black women struggles, and its proximity with the female empowerment perspective. Following the investigation process, we discuss about the origin, tendencies and the neoliberal theorical and practical-political limitations, its functionality to the maintenance of capitalist society and we examine the women empowerment considering the neoliberal inflexions that are expressed in institutionalization processes and feminist movements’ resistance. The main results point out that the empowerment ideology over the neoliberal fundamentals get ideological density and assume the social function to disseminate, especially among women, that to be empowered consists of an objective/achievement capable of putting them in another level of confrontation against their unfavorable life condition. That occurs in detriment of the political meaning of the process of conquering the class consciousness, which tends to distant itself from the everyday of certain segments of women from working class. The contributions of  the black feminism are carriers of contradictions between the possibilities, limits and viability of the articulation between empowerment, class consciousness and feminist militant consciousness. At last, we discuss about the neoconservadorism and neoliberalism in Brazil, identifying the particularities of the national conjuncture; the Brazilian black feminism, its contributions to the empowerment and collective organization of women; and we question the possibility and viability of the articulation between empowerment, class consciousness and  feminist militant consciousness. The investigation strategies used will be bibliographic and documentary analysis. The bibliographical study embraced mainly productions that discussed about empowerment, neoliberalism, neoconservadorism, black feminism thought and black feminism, class consciousness and feminist militant consciousness. In the documental study we analyzed the World Bank productions concerning empowerment and gender available in its own website considering the following lines: (1) gender conception; (2) empowerment conception; (3) relation between empowerment, neoliberalism and social class; and (4) relation between empowerment and feminist struggles.   Our survey period comprehends the years 1995-2020, which coincide with the years of the most objectification of neoliberalism in Brazil to the current days: the beginning of Fernando Henrique Cardoso government to the government of Jair Messias Bolsonaro.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1149518 - SILVANA MARA DE MORAIS DOS SANTOS
Interna - 1714329 - ANDREA LIMA DA SILVA
Interna - 307.164.894-49 - RITA DE LOURDES DE LIMA - UFRN
Externo à Instituição - VERONICA FERREIRA