O trabalho de cuidado no contexto do sistema capitalista: uma correlação a partir de torto arado

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyze the correlation between the imposition of care work on women, gender inequality and the perpetuation of the capitalist system, based on the work Torto Arado, by Itamar Vieira Júnior. Regarding the methodology, it has a dialectical approach, as it comprehends social modifications and transformations through literature. The main research method is bibliographic, with theoretical grounding in materialist feminism and the book Torto Arado.In order to demonstrate this perspective, we analyzed how the patriarchal and capitalist system naturalizes female subordination to men, with the ideal that women's happiness depends on marriage and motherhood. Thus, by studying the feminist-materialist Theory of Social Reproduction, we can understand the relationship between the naturalization of domestic activities as belonging to the female personality and performed out of love, without the need for remuneration, and gender inequality. The reflexes of these social relations were analyzed through the literary work Torto Arado, which portrays the daily lives of workers who live in servitude in the northeastern hinterland. In addition, the contradictions inherent in the capitalist system were observed, due to the division between work in the public environment for men and the natural domestic activity of women. Finally, the racial division of domestic work was analyzed, in which gender, race and class violence determine that it is up to black women to provide the care for white middle-class families.