Tecnologia (d)e gênero: vetores interseccionais para a análise das feminilidades brasileiras

Abstract

This research focuses on gender studies and the history of the brazilian feminism aiming to propose vectors for the analysis of Brazilian women, we consider that vectors are identities’ marks that produce a complex gender’s experiences (such as race, sexual orientation, social class, territoriality, etc.). We propose that the conception of gender as a tecnology (PRECIADO, 2002) and the postcolonial feminisms offer the possibility of building a complex method to examine womanhood that takes into consideration the colonial situation in its totality. We also consider that the colonial body project crosses factors as race, class, sexual orientation, territoriality, etc., perpassa fatores como a raça, classe, orientação sexual, territorialidade, etc., in other words, it has a intersectional quality. In this order, we explore how Western feminist theory excludes a contigent of women whose identities differ from the one intended by the colonialismo, this perception includes Brazilian feminism. The assumption of the complicity of Western feminism with the ideals of colonial domination motivates us to go through Brazilian feminist historiography in order to recognize the existence of marginalized narratives the existence of marginalized narratives wich are parallel to the history legitimized by the academy. In addition, we desconstruct constructivist gender theories that support this feminist bias appealing to the question of the materiality of bodies and evidencing that gender constructivism has a limited potential for emancipation because of the reproduction of Western philosophy’s imperatives. Therefore, we suggest that the opening of women’s category may provide more accurate non-totalizing analysis of the reality of different Brazilian women’s groups. To accomplish the research objectives we adopt as a methodology the bibliografic review on the history of feminism in Brazil, gender studies, intersectional theory and texts that address the confluence of feminisms and postcolonialisms.