MULHERES E PARTICIPAÇÃO POLÍTICA: um significado para além do espaço privado

Abstract

It is known that women, for centuries were relegated to areas, theretofore, undemocratic and decisive. For the Social Agents from Paracuru, members of an association composed of 25 women formed on the west coast of Ceará, managed to equip themselves with knowledge and began to break down communication barriers between the private and public spaces. This study aims to unveil the meaning of political integration in the life course of the women that are part of the Social Agents from Paracuru. Starting from a methodological proposal anchored in interventional and participant research, the analysis of the discourses of the Social Agents from Paracuru contributed to the observation that those women have awakened to a policy favorable to the disruption of certain encoded subjectivities, dared to leave their domestic routine and are using their strategies in the search for new meaning in their lives.

Keywords

• social agents
• public policies
• public and private
• political participation and empowerment