Ditadura e reivindicações por democracia: memórias feministas e a questão do trabalho doméstico (1964-1990)

Abstract

This article utilizes as sources memoirs of women who were feminist militants during the military dictatorship in Brazil and who also participated in the political opening in the country from the mid-1980s. In these memoirs are investigated, from the point of view of these women, who were politically engaged in feminisms and often in the left, the interlocutions between the feminist problematizations about domestic work and the perspectives of a democratic society that begins to be unveiled in the period. Under the slogan "feminism in country and at home", feminist debates articulated public and private by denouncing the domestic workload that was carried out almost exclusively by women and its consequences for full access to citizenship. The article is based on the perspective of women´s history and gender relations, as well as the historiographic debates on memory and oral history, crossing a wide bibliography of reference on the feminisms of the period, dictatorship and democratic opening. In this way, the intention is to think the history of the debate about domestic work headed by feminists of this generation as a focal point for women in the new democratic perspectives that were built in the Brazilian political sphere in the second half of the 1980s.