Feminismo, geografia e educação anticolonial: A mulher na mídia machista brasileira e como agente de resistência e solidariedade em Uberlândia-MG

Abstract

The present work is based on the thesis that the history of fights for social and economic rights reflects on the creation of spaces of resistance, solidarity and collectivity, creating na opposition to the socioeconomic oppression of capitalist society, which often reinforces individualism, sexism against women and the objectification of bodies, mainly female ones. The participation of working women in feminist movements, located in a specific time and space, hás consolidated itself in historical achievements, however, the female visibility in society is still far from equaling the position of men. And when it comes to salaries, leadership and political positions, this abyss becomes greater. Thus, this thesis starts from the historical analysis of the trajectories and achievements of the feminist movement in Brazil and analyzes feminism through a geographical bias that reflects on the understanding of women's daily lives. Daily life that is crossed by the media that reinforces the structural sexism materialized in speeches, behaviors and images that are part of publicity advertisements. In this way, the social relations established in time and space contribute to the marginalization of the poorest, and at the Center of this question are salaried working women. For this, the thesis dialogues, in the light of dialectical historical materialism, the themes: Feminism in Brazil – trajectories and conquests; Going towards an Anticolonial Feminist Geography; and Women in the Intervention of Geographical Space. Therefore, the importance of this thesis lies in the chronological organization and geographic analysis of the social role of women in capitalist society, in a male-dominated context of oppression that contributes to the maintenance of everyday inequalities. And it also contributes to directing reflections on the feminine and feminist universe that engages in voluntary work for the maintenance of life, supplying some basic needs for human survival and taking a political position in the face of the conditions imposed by the capitalist social structure. The methodology used was based on reading the bibliography on the subject, analyzing the discourse of media images, associated with the empirical experience that took place during visits to solidary kitchens in Uberlândia-MG and dialogues with their coordinators.