Do corpo marcado ao corpo tela: a agenda feminista pelo direito ao aborto no Brasil

Abstract

This work's main objective is to analyze, using the mechanisms established by sociology and feminist theory, how the construction and monopolization of women's bodies by medical science and capitalism occurred, taking away their complete control over their own bodies and marking them through misogynistic, sexist, patriarchal, racist, and classist practices, among other social aspects of difference that are addressed throughout the analysis. Thus, I am concerned with discussing perceptions of the body, especially from a non-exclusionary feminist perspective. To move away from this Eurocentric conception that has only violated and oppressed these bodies to date, I understand that our subjectivities are important and extremely permissible, and how the issue of abortion is permeated by these abusive and violent conceptions attributed to the body. Thus, it is necessary to recall the historical framework organized by these women as a socio-political movement at the beginning of the struggle for reproductive and sexual rights, since they spearheaded the fight for reproductive and sexual rights, essentially regarding the issue of abortion. I also seek to analyze and map the actions of these feminist political formations in Brazil, based on an understanding raised by bell hooks regarding the practice of feminist theory and the need to create contemporary ways of producing feminist theory, combining it with feminist practice, thus fostering the growth of a radical theoretical agenda that aims for a liberating praxis, bringing theory closer to practice. The research adopts a qualitative approach and uses bibliographical research and netnography as techniques, drawing on feminist theory as a basis for analysis.