Marias bonitas: a participação popular das mulheres como processo de empoderamento para a transformação social das relações de gênero

Abstract

This study aimed to discuss, through a literature review forms of social and public participation relating to the history of the feminist movement, the extent of experience lived by the Collective Marias Beautiful Making History and the perception of social work. This intertwining provided realize how much women need to be participating in spaces of struggle and empowerment, as it is still an important issue in the face of persistent inequalities in gender relations, provided by a system divided into classes that are appropriate in the workforce working class thus aggravating the oppression and discrimination. The result of this search related to women daily show the importance of a conscious participation in the quest for autonomy and empowerment of women for transformation into a new social order in which values women as rights of actresses. This perception was possible mainly watching and experiencing the collective Marias Beautiful, where actions are aimed at breaking the situations of asujeitamento, where the spaces for the construction of public policies are recognized as strategic to eradicate inequalities of gender relations. In this process the social worker may have a role to reframe.