Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: KARUNA SINDHO DE PAULA SILVA

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STUDENT : KARUNA SINDHO DE PAULA SILVA
DATE: 30/08/2024
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Google Meet
TITLE:

Women's bodies as a battlefield: SOS Corpo and feminist action in Recife and Olinda (1980 to 1991)

KEY WORDS:

SOS  Corpo; Feminisms; Gender Relations; Body.

PAGES: 120
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUBÁREA: História do Brasil
SPECIALTY: História do Brasil República
SUMMARY:

This research presents an investigation into the female body as a territory in dispute over power relations. A territory over which systematic domination has been ensured, perpetrated over centuries, through ideological, economic, political and religious mechanisms. It is based on the premise that the dispute over the colonization of the female body, in all spheres – whether biological, social or subjective – constitutes the territory in which the exploitation necessary for the establishment of patriarchy was founded. The social condition of women is studied from the perspective of corporeality and the experience of gender – culturally signified – operating these analytical categories with the intersectionality between class, race and gender.
The paths of the politicization of women's bodies were traced by a militant practice marked by marches, public acts, and the symbolic expression of rupture and insurgency against the set of norms imposed on women's bodies. In this sense, the burning of bras prefigures a symbolic event of the feminist movement. This thesis highlights the political and educational practices based on reflection groups, also known as self-help groups. There were numerous such reflection groups in Recife and Olinda since the late 1970s. Self-examination was introduced as part of the political and educational proposal of the reflection groups. The analyses of the female condition that existed at the time presented notions about the body, sexuality and reproduction as central. As a result, the practice of self-examination gained strong support within the reflection groups. The opportunity to see one's own body, vagina and cervix – as an experience with political and emancipatory connotations – was significantly significant for a group of women, which met since the late 1980s and was formalized in 1981 in Olinda, under the name S.O.S / Corpo. Shortly thereafter, the following addition was added: Women's Health Group. SOS Corpo has a long history of collective political and educational actions, building knowledge, developing theories, achieving legal milestones at the international level, and public policies at the national level. This research aims to develop a historical study about women's bodies as a political battlefield, based on the work of the feminist NGO SOS Corpo - Women's Health Group, during the period between 1980 and 1991, in the cities of Recife and Olinda.

The way of acting politically adopted by SOS Corpo was fueled by joint work with other networks, in particular, it is worth mentioning, the National Feminist Health Network - Sexual and Reproductive Rights, founded in 1991, of which SOS Corpo was one of the member organizations for its creation. Another important organization, founded in the city of Recife on August 11, 1989, is the Curumim Group – Gestação e Parto, with which SOS Corpo shared spaces for militant action. Another relevant organization for the study of the dispute over the appropriation of women's bodies is the Coletivo de Saúde Feminista – Saúde e Sexualidade, created in the same year as SOS Corpo, in the city of São Paulo, in 1981. Committed to the struggle of women for the appropriation of their bodies – so that they could exercise the power of care and healing based on informed decisions – SOS Corpo developed a series of actions (campaigns, courses, educational projects), among which the following will be studied in this thesis: a) promotion of reflection and self-examination groups; b) educational actions developed through arts and other playful methodological resources; c) orientation programs for doctors and health professionals; d) participation in the formulation of legal frameworks for women's health. It is necessary to highlight a triad of understandings that guided the feminist action of SOS Corpo: body-sexuality-reproduction, organizing the production of research, theory and educational and militant work with groups of women from the outskirts of Recife, during the 1980s, around sexual rights - the freedom to express and experience sexuality with autonomy, dissociated from reproduction - and reproductive rights - which establish the exercise of reproduction free from imposition and violence, obtaining information, means, methods and techniques to achieve or avoid motherhood.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - ALCILEIDE CABRAL DO NASCIMENTO
Interno - HUMBERTO DA SILVA MIRANDA
Interna - ***.096.684-** - JANAINA GUIMARAES DA FONSECA E SILVA - UPE
Externa à Instituição - TEMIS PARENTE - UFT
Externa à Instituição - ANA VEIGA - UFPB
Externa à Instituição - ROBERTA RAMOS MARQUES - UFPE
Externa à Instituição - VÂNIA NARA VASCONCELOS - UNEB