Relações de Gênero, memória e identidades no Brasil do século XX

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Zélia Lopes da [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://www.uem.br/dialogos/index.php?journal=ojs&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=993; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/126779
• topic: Gender relationships; Female memories; Women in public spaces; Relaciones de género; Memoria de mujeres; Mujeres en los espacios públicos; Relações de gênero; Memória de mulheres; Mulheres nos espaços públicos

Gender relationships focusing on homages to the women of Assis (a town in the center-western region of the state of São Paulo, Brazil) between 1959 and 1994, are discussed. Homages, expressed in monuments, street names, city squares, schools, libraries, Cultural Centers and other places, are based on the activities of women who benefitted the community. They feature lawyers, politicians, journalists, teachers and common citizens that exceeded their personal limitations and conquered a place acknowledged by society (politically invested) so that their names may be inscribed in the city´s public places. However, acknowledgement of female contributions in the construction of the city is not projected at the same pace or speed as that of males who compose the gallery of ‘remembered men’. This fact brings forth the following questions: If the naming of public places were for decades based on gender, what had changed by the end of the 1950s for such a redefinition? What is the true meaning of such homages? Who are these women and what do they represent?