O feminismo no âmbito da produção do conhecimento no programa de pós-graduação da Faculdade de Serviço Social

Abstract

This final paper examines how feminism is developed in the production of knowledge in the Graduate Program of Social Work of the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), through the analysis of dissertations produced from 2007 to 2018. Feminism comes incorporating a new way of producing knowledge, acquiring space in theoretical production, contributing to the studies about the gender issue in capitalist society, and constituting itself in a correlated way with the feminist movement. In this sense, and considering the guidelines and parameters of Social Work, it is necessary to understand how it correlates with feminism, considering that both have as their central objective human emancipation. It is noteworthy that this work is based on Karl Marx's dialectical historical materialist method, as well as understands feminism as a classist, considering the race/ethnicity and gender cuts. At first, we present a historical overview of feminism in Brazil, as a social movement and field of study. In the second moment, we give a brief contextualization of the emergence of social work, since its genesis came from a conservative and adverse perspective of feminism. Subsequently, we discussed how conditions arose to initiate an approximation between Social Work and feminism, as well as the relevance of feminist studies to the category of social workers, both in academic and action fields. Finally, we analyze the dissertations of the UFJF graduate program in Social Work, with the purpose of understanding how this relationship presents itself. Thus, we observed a tiny production that encompasses the theme of this work, as well as an absence of disciplines that work the gender category in the process of academic formation of the social work, implying a reduced debate and little production of knowledge.