Relações autoritárias em espaços feministas de universidades brasileiras

Abstract

The context of this research are Brazilian universities, more specifically, the groups that study women, gender relations and feminism. The focus is authoritarian power relations in spaces theoretically committed to the democratization of social relations as academic feminists. The objectives of this paper are to contribute to the knowledge of power relations in feminist spaces in Brazilian universities and to deepen democracy in academic feminist spaces. This article also brings the experience of teachers and researchers who went through non democratic situations in feminist spaces of universities, as well authoritarian practices in these spaces. A last objective is to show a concept of feminist democracy to serve as a parameter to compare with oppressive practices in feminist academic spaces and point out ways to exercise power more equally in these spaces.