REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IN THE JOURNAL MULHERIO (1981-1988): A REFLECTION ON THE LIMITS OF A FEMINISM OTHERWISE TO COLOR AND SOCIAL CLASS

Abstract

In this article, we will approach the way in which the academic feminists of the Mulherio newspaper (1981-1988) debated reproductive issues in the 1980s. Our analyzes revealed that the discussions made by this production, with regard to reproductive rights, were marked by a universalist conception of women that ignored ethnic-racial and classist lines. Committed to an intersectional perspective with an anti-systemic bias, we dialogue with the contributions of some authors who have endeavored to explain the overlaps between capitalism, sexism and racism. Finally, it is important to say that exposing the limits that marked the way in which Mulherio undertook the debate on reproduction does not mean despising its contributions to understanding the feminist agendas of that experience, that is, its use as a historical source. Here we are much more interested in analyzing the way in which this production dialogued with the society of its time so that we could advance in the struggle for reproductive rights – which is linked to the struggle for the end of class society