Resumo:
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.
