Crítica à submissão do feminino em Mulheres de Atenas, de Chico Buarque

Abstract

The first scope of this article is about discussing how the buarquean critique of the submission of the female subject to the male in Brazilian society occurs through the allegory in the song Mulheres de Atenas, available in the album Meus Caros Amigos (HOLANDA, 1976). in a hostile environment, unable to fully disclose his sociopolitical-ideological convictions, due to the continuous suppressions of the military who ruled the country at that time, Chico Buarque becomes one of the main national intellectuals to report all the excesses practiced in this unequal Brazilian society ; this is done in a particular and full of metaphors way, for Chico Buarque is able to expressthe society exactly as it was at that time. Thus, through the song Mulheres de Atenas, Buarque shows how the Brazilian woman, at the end of the twentieth century, remains anchored to the man, the male figure, motivated by the stigmatizations and pressures of a conservative society. In addition to that, the song also refers to a context of repression in the country. I In order to better develop the argumentation that has been announced, we will use the feminist base as a theoretical apparatus, a mechanism which contemplates gender discussions - referring to oppression, silencing and subalternity -, these studies seek a better insertion of women and other minority groups, but to this day remain being left aside on the margins of social dialogue.

Keywords

• dictatorship. mulheres de atenas. female. submission