O Quarto de Carolina : O gênero, a moradia e os direitos sociais em Quarto de Despejo

Abstract

The urban ethnography, written in informal language by a slum dweller, brings the verbal outlines of the thoughts of someone who has suffered the marks of social segregation, aporophobia, racism and misogyny. Quarto de Despejo, written in the format of a diary, raises the interweaving of the themes of gender and housing, allowing us to identify the intersectionality of gender, race, and class in the social production of space. Prior to the formulation of the feminist theoretical scope on fighting inequalities, Carolina emerges from poverty, alien to academia, identifies pertinent social issues, and produces archetypes that allow for confrontation with later postulated theories. More than half a century after her first publication, it is still possible to see in practice how these issues remain entangled and without adequate confrontation, adding other components. Thus, using the literature review method and centered on a historical-descriptive understanding, the considerations presented are about gender theories, which can be debated from the perspective of social rights and the public policies produced, comparing the literary work and the sociological perspective