O ESTADO NEOLIBERAL E A PROPOSTA DE EMPODERAMENTO FEMININO

ORIGENS E LIMITES TEÓRICOS E PRÁTICO-POLÍTICOS

Abstract

In this research we intend to analyze the theories that inspire the neoliberal State model and their implications on the female empowerment perspective. To that end, it was necessary the apprehension of the origins and the main theories that support the neoliberal thought; the implications which relates it with the female empowerment perspective; and the limitations which characterize the neoliberal social development model and the female empowerment strategies. The theorical-analitical path was outlined by bibliographic research from the main references that support the neoliberalism, and also from those which defend the empowerment as the final purpose for what the humanity needs to fight for. In order to problematize the theorical and political-practical limitations we used the materialist marxist references which discuss about the neoliberal project and the challenges to the marxist feminism in the current days. We conclude that the neoliberalism presents itself as the defensor of the individuals’ freedom, but gives it restrictly accordingly to the capital expansion intererests. Being present in all spheres of social life, the neoliberalism approprieate of feminist guidelines and convert them to capital appreciation ways via the market. However, those procedures do not occur passively. The depreciation of life may provoke the resistance and the radical transformation of society. The fight against the neoliberalism must be performed by all workers, feminists, anti-capitalists, anti-racists, anti-lgbt-phobic and ecosocialists, towards the full emancipation of the human gender.