Representações sociais das mulheres do Bairro Alto Bonito: narrativas de histórias de vida

Abstract

This paper aims to reflect on the social representations of women in the Alto Bonito neighborhood and the narratives of resistance developed in that territory. Seeking to understand how this process of struggle for her emancipation as a working woman. However, as we know, and as has already been discussed at other times, we know that historically women have always been targets of prejudice. His narratives about life stories, struggles and resistances make it possible to know how the social representations of this social group occur. The methodology used was: semi-structured interviews with Life Stories, elaboration of a social map by the women of Bairro Alto Bonito, who respectively participated in the interviews. The result pointed out that the women of Bairro Alto Bonito raise their children, suffer violence in various ways, did not finish their studies because they have to take care of the house, the husbands and especially of their children. But above all, they are women who struggle and resist daily to emancipate themselves.