Entre a norma e a rebeldia: rastros de feminismos no sertão baiano

Abstract

Conceptualizing the Brazilian semi-arid regions as a diverse and potent plural space (though historically associated with hunger, drought, dominant masculinities and submissive femininities), in this article I use the biographic study ofan unschooled, working class Afro-Indigenous woman living in the semi-arid region of Bahia to analyze various forms of female disobedience in this territory. Her narrative caused me to reflect on the possibilities for inventions of feminisms, consideringthat these were historically created by women’s direct confrontation with the androcentric order as well as by their subtle forms of rebellion. Using a decolonial perspective, I intend to analyze the various tactics utilized by this woman to subvert socialconstructions of gender, giving rise to potent and paradoxical “inventions of subjectivities”.