Relações sociais de gênero e política partidária: inserção partidária das mulheres na política maranhense

• Autor(a) principal: Abreu, Jacileia Cadete
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/4186
• topic: Mulheres e política; política partidária; gênero; Women and politics; Partisan Politics; Gender.; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS

This paper focuses on the women experiences working in partisan politics in São Luís do Maranhão. Through their narratives, we sought to understand and point out the strategies and capital used by them to step into and remain in the political space, which has traditionally been occupied mostly by men. The empirical field of research is the space of political action of a women s group in the city of São Luis in the years 2000-2004 and 2004-2008, periods decisively marked by moves that highlight the strengthening of the women s rights for political participation after decades of closures and silences of greater female participation in political spheres. The theoretical framework employed in this research lies in the concepts of social capital, trajectories, strategies, and habitus developed during the work of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. This contribution allowed the development of research enabling the mapping of movement of the parliamentary investigated in their inclusion in political spaces, without losing sight of the plots prepared for them to manage the public and private lives. Life story provided the information necessary to understand the strategies used by these women in their political trajectories that are sheltered by specific social field. Thus, we used unstructured interviews as a procedure for data collection. The achievement of this work allowed understand, among others things, that in the case of investigated women, their insertion into the world of partisan politics occur because a number of reasons, among them, generally by parts of the male figures (husbands, parents or in-laws, etc.) that lead them to the political activity; another important finding is that the work indicated that the investigated people perceive politics as a "mission", as a place of generosity, solidarity, as a ministry, thus removing the representation of politics as an area par excellence of political vacation