Menin@s do Rio e garot@s de Ipanema nas ondas do feminismo

Abstract

The purpose of the essay is to reflect on Feminism based on my own experience as a woman, taking as a reference the years 1960 and 2021 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. My gaze is on two poetic productions, Garota de Ipanema (1962), written by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, and Girls from Rio (2021), a song composed by Anitta in partnership with other authors ), seeking to understand the representation that these actors make of themselves and other people in those contexts. My reflection is not limited to gender issues, as historical and, above all, political factors have always governed Feminism. I conclude the essay, relying on the reflections of Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda (2018, 2019) to state that the wave experienced in Feminism that marked the girl of 1962 was interrupted by the Military Dictatorship, which led us to postpone our wave until 1985, an issue that was repeated in other Latin American countries. Differently, the wave that involves the girl of 2021 hits the rocks, due to its own strength and not due to the violence that the previous wave had to face, confirming that Feminism has advanced, a lot, in our country.