Participação feminina na política: mulheres, poder e patriarcalismo no Amazonas

Abstract

This study consists of an analysis of the female participation in the Legislative Branch of the Amazon. It is known that local politics following the national model is based on patriarchal and patrimonial values, perpetrated by the colonial culture. It is interesting to identify the interferences of the patriarchal marks, the old colonial model (conservative of the masculine order) in the gender relations in the Amazonian politics, highlighting the social conditions that mark the insertion and the permanence of the woman in the spaces of political decision and power. From the present study it is possible to perceive that values of masculine domination act within the social structures imprinting their mark on the Amazonian politics. The objective of the study is to try to understand the cultural aspects that influence women's participation in institutional politics, with the aim of reflecting on gender relations in the spaces of political power and decision. The research takes as epistemological basis theorists of local and national literatures and classics of Social Sciences, especially: Emmile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Gilberto Freire, Norbert Elias and contemporaries such as Simone de Beauvoir, Heleieth Saffioti, Joan Scott, Michele Perrot, Flavia Biroli and Heloísa Lara da Costa. In the empirical part they will be used as sources: official press documents, speeches of the parliamentarians, projects and documents that can offer information pertinent to the proposed investigation. The research approaches the participation of women in politics from the advent of suffrage to the present, in a panoramic sense, seeking to reflect the social conditions imposed on women that are launched in the field of institutional politics.