Do apagamento à visibilidade: um estudo sobre a representatividade das mulheres motoristas de ônibus da cidade do Natal/RN

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the representation of women who exercise, in the metropolitan region of the city of Natal/RN, the profession of bus drivers, mostly and socially, directed towards the male gender. The core objective focuses on analyzing the extent to which women who work as bus drivers in the city of Natal/RN participate in social mediation that generates collective and individual representation of the social group in which they are inserted. The research is guided by the following question: Can women working in professions considered “masculine”, especially the profession of bus driver in the city of Natal/RN, contribute to a change in the current power structure in the capitalist mode? To develop the study, it is assumed that the liberal model consolidated a binary view of the world, dividing it into public and private spheres, with the first being, respectively, the space occupied by men, considered more valued, while the second is placed in the field of reproduction, of the inferior, the woman's place of belonging. Institutional political power structured and maintained as a field of exclusions of class, race, sexuality and gender, disseminates, within this logic, the devaluation of the feminine. Field and bibliographical research is classified as qualitative and exploratory. The investigation process is supported by the lens of the theory of social reproduction or unitary theory of the dialectical historical materialist method, aligned with the analytical perspective of Marxist feminists, necessary to guide the understanding of the overlapping of class, race, gender and social relations controlled by domination, exploitationand oppression contained in the society governed by the heteronormative-patriarchal-racist-sexistcapitalist system. The collection and collection of data relies on a semi-structured interview script applied to female bus drivers, and, in a preliminary way, it points out as results that female bus drivers in the city of Natal/RN adopt a process of representation in their stories, characterized by behavioral behaviors, senses of resistance/resilience, communication, spaces for decisions and transformations in the face of the impositions of the power structures of the capitalist system, therefore, they begin to provoke a collective and individual transformation in the environment in which they are inserted . In this way, women bus drivers in the city of Natal/RN began to organize a scenario with strategies that establish the basis for overcoming prejudice, discrimination, domination and violence that are so latent in society.