TRABALHO DOMÉSTICO É TRABALHO: discussões feministas no Cone Sul (1970- 1989)

Abstract

The feminisms of what was called the Second-wave, more specifically the Southern Cone ones, are the object of my study. And it was through these feminisms that the issue of housework as a problem caught my attention. The relation between women and housework, even though affirmed by the feminisms and the gender studies as culturally built, has its main contribution in the naturalization of these functions. This article intends to deal with the discussion aboutthese feminisms in search for the deconstruction of these naturalizations, in an attempt to argue that housework is also a kind of work, and it's necessary and indispensable to human life. Periodicals produced by feminist groups are used for such analysis, besides reference bibliography about the issue, wich gives me the clipping of time of the article.