Gênero, Raça/Etnia e Religião no Congresso Nacional. Trajetória e atuação das três deputadas federais negras evangélicas da 55a Legislatura: Benedita da Silva, Tia Eron e Rosângela Gomes.

• Autor(a) principal: OLIVEIRA , MARIA DE LOURDES V.
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1791
• topic: Gênero; Raça/Etnia; Religião e Política; Gender; Race/Ethnicity; Religion and Politics; CIENCIAS HUMANAS

The purpose of the present study is to point out that inequalities between women and men occur on a daily basis and, in general, are seen as natural. That defines private space for women and public space for men. The political sphere is one of the spaces considered difficult for women to access, in view of the fact that women’s presence at the 55th Legislature of the Chamber of Deputies represents only 9,9%. In other words, out of the 513 current seats only 51 women were elected. Furthermore, presently it has been noticed at the Brazilian Congress a political move from religious segments among which we must point out the evangelical bench that has been against feminism and gender issues in a broader way. However, it is worth noticing that among evangelical congresswomen (12 representatives), three of them see themselves as black women, and it seems that until now they have been working with more proposals aiming at topics related to women’s right and promotion of racial equity than their fellow evangelicals. They are: Benedita da Silva – PT/RJ; Rosângela de Souza Gomes PRB/RJ, and Eronildes Vasconcelos Carvalho (Tia Eron) (PRB/BA). The present research intends to study the congressional actions of the current black evangelical federal deputies from 2015 to 2017. We studied the way they relate their lives and religious background to their political actions, mainly in what concerns projects regarding gender and race/ethnicity. Analyzing those women’s stories leads us to consider the importance of this study under the viewpoint of gender, race/ethnicity, class intersectionality, and religion. The methodological procedures comprise document survey of these congresswomen’s life story, their social, political and religious action; information was provided by the federal deputies’ office, and interviews were held with each one of them.