O ecofeminismo em defesa da natureza e das mulheres : proteção jurídica do movimento à luz da legislação brasileira

Abstract

The ecofeminist ideology argues that both women and nature deserve appreciation and protection. Therefore, the ecofeminist movement acts to combat female subjugation in society through environmental preservation, showing that the causes for female and environmental devaluation are the same. Based on this scenario, this master's thesis presents as a research problem: Is current Brazilian legislation capable of regulating human conduct in order to guarantee a healthy environment and gender equality for present and future generations? The overall objective is to propose possible solutions as instruments for complementing and/or implementing Brazilian legislation, capable of changing human behavior towards greater environmental protection and greater independence and autonomy for women. In the development of the text, through ecofeminist authors, it is revealed that capitalism, patriarchy, androcentrism and anthropocentrism are systems that generate numerous social, economic and environmental losses through domination dynamics unconsciously accepted by the vast majority of contemporary society, and they also result in environmental disasters, which in turn do double damage. To combat these intersecting causes, ecofeminism finds sufficient support in the legal system. even though legislative inefficiency has been proven, as well as the current ecological crisis and the predominance of women's oppression in the face of independence already achieved. A qualitative approach and exploratory and bibliographical research technique were adopted. It is concluded that the way of living in society idealized by ecofeminism offers significant contributions to present and future generations, such as: the guarantee of vital, dignified and harmonious existence among all living beings, and it is possible to be achieved with better practices of the Public Power and the community, for this purpose, possible solutions are presented, such as the effective implementation of environmental education to reach the population's awareness and, as a result, new behaviors that voluntarily comply with preservationist legislation and that accept public policies in the same sense, with a greater effort on the part of public management, which will be even more effective if gender equality is also present in the spaces of power and decision-making. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]