Tracing feminism in Brazil

Date Issued:: 2013
Summary:: Women's movements and feminisms in Brazil have taken various forms throughout the years, contributing significantly to socio-political actions that favor gender justice. However, Brazilian feminisms remain on the margins of American academic discourse. In the United States, conceptualizations of feminism are often complicated by epistemological practices that treat certain political actions as feminist while dismissing others. The invisibility of Brazilian feminisms within feminist scholarship in the United States, therefore, justifies the need for further research on the topic. My research focuses on feminist articles published by Revista Estudos Feministas, one of the oldest and most well known feminist journals in Brazil. Using postcolonial, postmodern, and critical race feminist theories as a framework of analysis, my thesis investigates the theories and works utilized by feminists in Brazil. I argue that Brazilian feminisms both challenge and emulate the social, economic, and geopolitical orders that divide the world into Global North and South.

Title:	Tracing feminism in Brazil: locating gender, race and global power relations in Revista Estudos Feministas.	171 views 59 downloads
Name(s):	Bozzetto, Renata Rodrigues Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Type of Resource:	text
Genre:	Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Date Issued:	2013
Publisher:	Florida Atlantic University
Physical Form:	electronic
Extent:	vii, 93 p. : ill.
Language(s):	English
Summary:	Women's movements and feminisms in Brazil have taken various forms throughout the years, contributing significantly to socio-political actions that favor gender justice. However, Brazilian feminisms remain on the margins of American academic discourse. In the United States, conceptualizations of feminism are often complicated by epistemological practices that treat certain political actions as feminist while dismissing others. The invisibility of Brazilian feminisms within feminist scholarship in the United States, therefore, justifies the need for further research on the topic. My research focuses on feminist articles published by Revista Estudos Feministas, one of the oldest and most well known feminist journals in Brazil. Using postcolonial, postmodern, and critical race feminist theories as a framework of analysis, my thesis investigates the theories and works utilized by feminists in Brazil. I argue that Brazilian feminisms both challenge and emulate the social, economic, and geopolitical orders that divide the world into Global North and South.
Identifier:	858621113 (oclc), 3362338 (digitool), FADT3362338 (IID), fau:4176 (fedora)
Note(s):	by Renata Rodrigues Bozzetto. Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2013. Includes bibliography. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Reader.
Subject(s):	Feminism -- Brazil Popular culture -- Brazil Women and democracy Postmodernism (Litearture) -- Brazil Brazil -- Social life and customs
Persistent Link to This Record:	http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3362338
Use and Reproduction:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Host Institution:	FAU

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