Mulheres que leem e são lidas: a formação do clube literário Leia Mulheres em João Pessoa

Abstract

Women have more rights than men and still complain, shout some worthless individuals. Truth must be told: women continue to fight so hard to achieve elementary rights, as the control of our bodies or the sense of safety when out at night, and to keep those obtained, always about to slip out of our hands. In face of the opposition in contemporaneity between growing feminist struggles and also growing misogynist repudiates, bringing women's voices to academic spaces is a vital task. Keeping this in mind, this work intended to develop a critical research on the reading club Leia Mulheres using as theoretical contribution notes on philosophy – Beauvoir (2009), Wollstonecraft (2016) - and feminist critical or literary theories – Moi (1995), Woolf (2016), Lemaire (1994), In the first chapter, I analyze the circumstances that caused the relative effervescence in the contemporaneity of works written by women, and in the second I critically present the development of the literary club Leia Mulheres in João Pessoa. Founded in the city of São Paulo in 2015 and brought to João Pessoa in the following year, the club is set up as a tool for theoretical and practical exchange, fostering in women the understanding of themselves as subjects of their lives from literature.