A FEMINILIZAÇÃO URBANA BURGUESA, COM REALCE À VANGUARDA FEMINISTA NORTE RIO GRANDENSE

Abstract

We offer a historical reflection on the feminist vanguard from the Rio Grande do Norte in urban spaces, based on the representation of competitive capitalism and the industrial bourgeoisie. Feminist struggles compose a mode of urbanity that transgresses segregatory practices in city spaces. The avant-garde movements that took place in this geographical area with their notable representatives – Auta de Souza, Zila Mamede, Nízia Floresta and Celina Guimarães Viana – announce sparks of socio-spatial transformations in the struggle for emancipation. Belonging to a stigmatized group in feminist studies in Brazil, considered part of a “diffuse feminism” far from questions of class and race, the bourgeois women materialized actions with a rich trajectory for social rights; experienced social tensions, representations and political struggles that built an arsenal of dynamic disputes in a space in which the first female vote was constituted in Brazil, in 1927, a fact that had worldwide repercussions. Which opened the doors to a new urbanity, with the representation of women in the current political scenario. The avant-garde remains part of the transformations brought about by the feminist struggle mediated by the accumulation of time in this contemporary space. Today, the state has a woman as the highest representative of the government, in the same way, it has the largest municipal parliamentary group represented by women at the country level.