O maracatu e o combate à violência contra a mulher, uma história de lutas e poderes.

Abstract

A research on the origin of Maracatu Nação in Pernambuco, its paths, challenges and achievements over time, explaining the duality existing in its traditional division of powers, spaces and functions exercised by men and women. These distinctions trigger gender issues with participatory participation and female leadership. The work will also analyze the conquest of women in these spaces before men, contemplating the trajectory of Master Joana D'arc Cavalcante, the first and only woman to head a maracatu nation in the world: the Maracatu Nation Pina's Charm; also founder of Maracatu Baque Mulher (2008), the latter being composed exclusively of women. We bring the process of construction of this group, and the reasons for its creation, contemplating today women from all over Brazil and their forums, as a tool to combat violence and crimes against a woman, especially the black woman, drawing attention to the urgency of discussing and create means of prevention, minimize and combat this situation.