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Women, BCP and Feminisms: disputes and tensions (1930-1937)

Authors :
Iracélli da Cruz Alves
Source :
Esboços, Vol 25, Iss 40, Pp 435-452 (2018)
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 2018.

Abstract

This article analyzes the feminist activism of women from Communist Party of Brazil, now called Brazilian Communist Party (BCP) between 1930 and 1937, as well as established relationships with other feminist groups of the period. The central concern is to show how pecebistas conceived the fight and the criticisms they made to other feminist groups. In the early twentieth century, it has become a growing number of women organized in support of political and social change for females. In the period, born formal collective organizations that fought for more rights for women, we usually call feminists. The struggle for women’s emancipation was permeated by tensions. For women the BCP, feminism was understood as a “petty bourgeois” movement, therefore, inappropriate for women who were truly concerned with women’s emancipation. Do not recognize herself feminist does not mean, necessarily, lack of engagement with the common guidelines to feminisms. Aside from all the tensions, the struggle of women into BCP, and intraparty relations have also been marked by tensions and contradictions. In this sense, the text aims to reflect on the different forms of organization, tensions and contradictions in feminist struggles in the first half of the twentieth century, especially those connected to the BCP.

Details

Language :
English, Spanish; Castilian, French, Portuguese
ISSN :
1414722X and 21757976
Volume :
25
Issue :
40
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Esboços
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.0fedeb04a24a476e9d037e57118cace0
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2018v25n40p435