A exploração da mulher e da natureza como fenômenos fundamentais à formação do capitalismo brasileiro

Abstract

This research aims to examine the interrelations between Brazilian capitalist development, the exploitation of women, and the appropriation of nature, highlighting the historical and social foundations that naturalized and biologized the female condition. The dissertation proposes an articulation between the commodification of nature and women, analyzing enclosures, witch hunts, and primitive accumulation as mechanisms for disciplining female bodies and appropriating reproductive labor. Furthermore, it adopts an ecofeminist perspective in dialogue with the critique of coloniality, showing how the exploitation of women, the domination of nature, and the oppression of colonized peoples shaped specific dynamics in dependent countries, distinct from European trajectories. The study also analyzes the uneven consolidation of Brazilian capitalism, marked by structural dependence, colonial legacies, and a subordinate insertion into the global economy, with emphasis on the generalization of female wage labor in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Thus, this research offers a critical analysis of the relations among gender, nature, and capitalism in Latin America, demonstrating how this development is rooted in an exploitative logic that interdependently articulates the domination of female bodies and nature. In the Brazilian case, it is observed that the configuration of the labor market mirrors these dynamics, which have contributed to the persistence of structural inequalities.