Feminismo e representação política

Abstract

Woman participation on political life has became dense on the last period. Concrete reality has shown that we compose the Brasilian electorate majority, about 52% of it, according to Electoral Superior Court (TSE). However, when we focus this analisis into the occupation of political offices by women, we notice there is less representativeness. We consider that women marginalization at the political scene has an explanation on the historical process known as patriarchy, which has centrality in this understanding, and it is dialectically associated to the democratic phenomenon. So, we realized an effort to demonstrate how patriarchy categories and democracy are associated, increasing the process of exploitationopression on women life. However, the guiding question on this search was looking to foment the debate on representativeness, that is, how far including women participation can guarantee working women rights implementation? Many countries have adopted the policy of quota to make less unequal the decision-making on political scene, trying to resolve the mismatch between the numbers of female electors and female effective participation. However, observing the “class”, “class consciousness” concepts, used on the dissertation, we believe that this perception is fragile, once noticing that many woman political action is conservative. In addition to it, the fact that the claim for representativeness meets resonance on posmodern thought is been questioned. Separated from the class conflict, the posmodern premises explore the speech of multiple identities, legitimizing all types of protest, without focus on class combat necesserally. Gambleling on subject diversity, on women empowerment, many times that speech meets fragmentation and political guidelines fragilization.