Mulheres em situação de rua e os limites da cidadania burguesa

Abstract

This dissertation sought to analyze the limits of bourgeois citizenship, from the experience of homeless women in the city of Uberlândia (MG). This cut is relevant, in order to identify, more expressively, the distance between formal and substantive equality and the impropriety of thinking about civil, political and social rights for groups that, in capitalist society, still have to conquer the right. to have rights. For this purpose, a field research was conducted with ten women, in the public-private equipment called Ramatiz group, aimed at the homeless population in Uberlândia. From a critique of the concept of citizenship proposed by Marshall, especially his conception of citizenship as a status in continuous progression. We discuss here the bourgeois fallacy of the universality proposal, a fallacy evidenced in an exemplary way in the case of homeless women. Which also form the Brazilian proletarian lumpem, defined by the figure of the Indian outcast because they experience every kind of oppression and social stratification possible. Thus, the argument of this research is based on the fact that these women, mostly excluded from the absorption possibilities offered by the market, not even to the reserve army, are conditioned to social invisibility, consequently having their particularities ignored. , for composing a demand that does not configure in the interests of the agenda of the bourgeois state. Therefore, to these, only the status of “inverted citizenship” remains, where access is always conditioned to the help of third parties, making any kind of emancipation, even politics, impossible for those who “produce” since being a citizen in bourgeois society, It consists in having a place in production, something far removed from the reality of homeless women, especially in a neoliberal context.