Without bread and without roses: from the Marxist feminism inspired by May 1968 to the academicism of gender

Abstract

In this article we reexamine the dynamics
of the feminist movement, highlighting the
particularity of its two faces in Brazil: on the
one hand, a “revisited” feminism and on
the other, the women’s movement. If at the
beginning we find a combative feminism in
the model of the explosion of May 1968, today
we perceive a feminism increasingly confined
to academic study and/or institutionalized,
especially through the provision of advice to
NGO’s, which contributes to the reflux of the
class struggle.