GRUPO MULHERES DA ILHA: Feminismos conectados na luta pelos direitos das mulheres em São Luís - MA (1980-1988)

Abstract

This research aims to analyze feminism in São Luís, from 1980 to 1988, and is a case study of the city's first feminist group, the "Mulheres da Ilha", according to what has been recorded. The general objective is to understand the historical processes of local feminism, starting from the Grupo Mulheres da Ilha, in order to connect them to larger processes, such as what was happening in the rest of Brazil, Latin America and Europe. As for the specific objectives, the aim is to bring to light and analyze how the debates were developed, the trajectory of the group's struggle for its rights and the adversities that constituted being a woman and a feminist during the 1980s in São Luís. Oral History will be the main methodology used, and interviews will be conducted with the activists who made up the aforementioned group. Thus, the main source of the research is the memories of the activists, but articles from newspapers from Maranhão will also be used. In order to analyze these sources, discourse analysis is used, based on Mikhail Bakhtin's Dialogical Discourse Theory. In addition, the research appropriates the analytical concepts present in gender studies, based on the contributions of Joan Scott and the concept of intersectionality formulated by Kimberlé Crenshaw.