TRABALHO COMO PRODUÇÃO DO VIVER

consequências políticas para o feminismo

Abstract

Framed in a materialistic feminist perspective, the theoretical formulations of Danièle Kergoat and Helena Hirata have been an inspiring thinking of a feminism as a social and political movement in which the centrality of work in the organization of dynamics and relationships of domination and inequality is a founding issue. Nourishing a permanent dialogue with feminist elaboration and the women's movement in Brazil and Latin America, these debates have been central to the growth of a vision of anti-capitalist and anti-racist feminism, in which the articulation of the different relations of domination and inequality is the dynamic core of the construction of collective practices of transformation. Work as the production of living in society is, on this scale, a privileged mechanism for understanding, through social practices, the relations of class, race, and sex, the articulators of exploitation, domination, and oppression. Hence the great challenge of articulating a movement capable of proposing economic and social alternatives, where collective practice and experience are at the same time generating new practices and individual experiences. Or, as the World March of Women significantly expresses it: to change women's lives to change the world, and to change the world to change women's lives.