Brazilian Feminism: The Struggle to Overcome Male Dominance For decades, women around the world have looked to each other for support and help in empowering the gender overall. In Brazil, for example, women have been making themselves heard and seen in the public arena since the early 1970s. Brazilian feminism is a political action in which both theory and practice are incorporated. Moreover, it centers on women as agents effecting change in their conditions. They seek to create opportunities for womens political participation, demand better conditions in womens daily live and address issues stemming from womens socially defined reproduction roles. In addition to the struggle to change existing laws and create new laws, theyre emphasizing the demand for more rights, new public policies, and more participation. Presently, feminist movements are concentrating against human misery and womens exercise of citizenship. Brazilian Feminists struggle in congress, in the streets, for the right to formal education, to vote, equal salaries, and suitable working conditions. In addition to obtaining control over their bodies and sexual pleasures.Beginning with the power of the pen, Nisia Floresta Brasileira Augusta, advocated womens right to formal education by publishing many works. Brazilian suffragist campaigns led to womens right to vote in 1932. Brazilian Communist Party mobilized low-income women to strive for better working conditions and participate in the broader struggles of society. Such mobilizations, especially after the 1940s, started many womens organizations. The conservative stances of the Catholic Church have had an enormous impact on laws, including such issues as contraceptives and abortions. Moreover, the military coup of the 1960s put an end to the womens movements. It brought women two steps backwards in that it focused on maintaining order, preserving traditional family ties, protection of property, obeying the church, f...
