RELAÇÕES DE GÊNERO E SERVIÇO SOCIAL: (des)encontros ao longo da profissão

Abstract

In capitalist society, the distribution of production tends to be profoundly unequal. This mode of production maximizes the contradictions present in the universe of all economic and social formations based on the private appropriation of the means of production. These contradictions include patriarchy, racism and class oppression. Starting from the Church, a doctrinal determination is imposed that based the first decades of Social Work in Brazil, expressing itself, among other forms, through the feminization of work, which began with a conservative formation. This conservative formation begins to be broken with the Reconceptual Movement, which triggers a critical revision of Social Work, and from the moment that this movement is consolidating, the Marxist bases in the profession are being strengthened. It is necessary to critically appraise the forms of constructions between gender and Social Work, for this, we seek to grasp the categories important for our analysis, such as gender, patriarchy, feminism and the sexual division of labor in the dynamics of social relations, in order to contribute with the discussion of patriarchal gender relations within Social Work. With this in mind, this Course Conclusion Paper aims to analyze the theoreticalpolitical tendencies of the scientific production of the Brazilian Social Service, through the annals of the last Encontro Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa em Serviço Social - ENPESS (2018), in which concerns the discussion of patriarchal gender relations, using dialectical historical materialism as the method, as well as bibliographical and documentary research. The choice for this event was due to the fact that it is an important channel of diffusion of knowledge of the scientific production of the profession in Brazil.