“Nínguem nasce mulher, torna-se mulher”: um debate acerca da Identidade Social da Mulher

Abstract

This paper titled “NOBODY IS BORN A WOMAN, YOU BECOME A WOMAN”: A DEBATE REGARDING THE SOCIAL IDENTITY OF A WOMAN has as its purpose to briefly entail women’s path, their social formation and their historically defined roles in the world and, particularly, in Brazil. Said presence of women in our society is characterized for inequalities between genders in the relations of domination, exploration and oppression. For a better understanding, we have seeked to address this historical development since the origins of the society until the contemporary world approaching the struggles, the strides, the marches and the many possibilities of confrontation to overcome gender inequalities in a capitalist, patriarchal, sexist, heteronormative and racist society. We worked with bibliographical research of the reading material of the categories tangled to the debate and we also held a documental study with legislations and official documents of governmental and non-governmental organizations responsible for the issue. At last, we reached some conclusions about how the patriarchy keeps on being updated in our society, being fundamental for the structuring of the contemporary capitalist society.