Reminiscências de vida e formação: um estudo (auto)biográfico com mulheres feministas

Abstract

The present work is a qualitative study based on (auto)biographical research with feminist women who dedicate themselves to gender studies in the – ELAS feminist study group at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). Data production was supported by different instruments: questionnaire, written letter, and conversation circle to contemplate the narrative of stories, memories, life trajectories, and education. The material prepared underwent a comprehensiveinterpretative analysis composed of the politics of meaning (SOUZA, 2014), enabling the study of the relationship between narratives and the singularity of stories in the process of (trans)(self)formation. The objective of the research was to understand how gender studies promote a “new” view of the world, through human formation with critical, emancipatory, and liberating consciousness. As the feminist movement is a political-social one that denounces and fights against systems of oppression - capitalism, racism, patriarchy, and colonialism - it is considered that education, within this context, can enhance a critical vision and an active search for a society based on gender equality with guaranteed rights and culturally diverse. Therefore, it is possible to envision (trans)formative processes based on significant experiences as a resource capable of promoting collective good living, which values subjectivities, recognizes identity singularities and can imagine other worlds.