O amor romântico na sociedade capitalista e patriarcal: uma crítica feminista marxista

• Autor(a) principal: Braz, Isana Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/11461
• topic: Amor romântico; Feminismo marxista; Patriarcado; Teoria da reprodução social; Capitalismo; Romantic love; Marxist feminism; Patriarchy; Social reproduction theory; Capitalism; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The present theoretical research, aimed to investigate the relationship between romantic love and the patriarchy in capitalist society based on the theoretical framework of marxist feminism. We understand that patriarchy today is an integral part of capitalist society and not an autonomous system of rules and mechanisms that reproduce themselves. Patriarchy has its current roots in private property, in the sexual division of labor and in the consequent structural relationship of the home with the reproduction of capital. The family is an institution that has been transformed throughout the history of the development of production and social reproduction. With the consolidation of capitalism, the monogamous family emerges, which is characterized by its isolation and domesticity. It expresses the apparent antagonism between the spheres of production and social reproduction is constituted by the triangle: father, mother and children. The roles between the sexes are well defined: the father is the head and provider of the family and the woman, the wife and the dedicated mother. Romantic love is one of the ideologies that reinforces this family. It emerged in Europe at the end of the 19th century, with the consolidation of bourgeois society and the appearance of the possibility of an individual life independent of community life. The love relationship becomes exalted as a synonym for personal fulfillment and happiness. Romantic love propagates the ideas of love at first sight and sacrificial love. Regarding love, women are understood as more loving, emotional and responsible for promoting love and care in the home. We understand that romantic love fulfills the function of rectifying and legitimizing patriarchy and capitalism by reinforcing fixed and stereotyped roles for women who confine them to the sphere of private life and social reproduction, an important sphere for the maintenance of the capitalist mode of production and patriarchy.