PROTAGONIST WOMEN IN POLITICS: THE REPRESENTATIVENESS OF WOMEN IN POLITICS IN THE BAIXADA FLUMINENSE - DUQUE DE CAXIAS, RJ, BRAZIL

Abstract

The thematic of this work arises from the necessity to make a historical view of the woman in the politics of the Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro. Giving emphasis to one specific municipalities, Duque de Caxias. This is an ethnographic essay presented to teacher Rosangela Malachias, who taught the Local and Global Culture discipline ate the Baixada Fluminense School of Education. The work was selected to integrate to communications from the 6th WLE Conference. In 2016, we had as a historical and political landmark the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, the first woman to assume the presidency of Brazil. Thinking about this scene and how much still in the 21st century, within a patriarchal society. The fact that a woman being protagonist in the political environment and occupying positions of responsibility and power, presents constraints and incompatibilities with the persistent female representations in Brazilian society. We decided to study the representativeness of women in politics, presenting a case study with a regional cut - the Baixada Fluminense, a region famous for having an entire family in the political environment and having an extremely conservative and patriarchal character. The Baixada Fluminense is a region made up of thirteen municipalities. At first we chose only one of them to work, due to the locality of the Baixada Fluminense School of Education, located in Duque de Caxias, because there is an interest in knowing better the political history of City, in addition to the male and already famous characters. Our intention is to analyze if in the politics of this municipality there were women's participation besides the secretaries and positions commissioned, as was the way to reach the post they conquered through direct voting and how it was to continue assuming the position entrusted to them by the population of the city. At the end of the work, we hope to have managed to show a historical line of women's presence in the politics of the city of Duque de Caxias, also analyzing the historical period and the explosions of identities.