Movimento solidário Colméia association: A place to women's citizenship recovery

Abstract

This study aims at presenting data from an investigation that the Research Group "Sexuality and School", from the Federal University at Rio Grande, has been developing with the Movimento Solidário Colméia Association members. Several meetings, which worked as a narrative space where women could listen to, narrate, and counter-argue stories and facts of their lives were organized. These women have been repeating the meaning attributed to feminine gender about maternity and care of the children, and about living and accepting aggressive attitudes of their partners. During the meetings, we carried out activities, which could provide them with information about these women's rights (from the Human Rights Declaration to the Maria da Penha Law); we contacted the Posto da Mulher workers, as well as the Casa de Passagem workers, an institution which gives shelter to the women and their children who are victims of violence. All of these activities aimed at the wakening for gender identities, trying to deconstruct the ways of thinking which have been passed from one generation to the other.