On the importance of gender transversality for the Contemporary Ffeminist debate

Abstract

The first treaty about the necessity of developing international cooperation to the defense of the human rights, independently of race, gender, language or religion, was the Charter of the United Nations, in 1945. In time, other documents, like the Inter-American Convention on Granting of Civil Rights to Woman (1948), Convention on the Political Rights of Woman (1953), Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979) have been ratified. In Brazil, the gender inequality started to be debated with the redemocratization process in the 1980s. However, the international politics agenda persists on defending overcoming inequality under the individual bias, ignoring its interface with other issues, such as: poverty and race, for example. Other important aspects of the debate, such as the denaturalisations and the identity dimension of the body and the feminists ethics of the denial of the duty of care, are also ignored. Observing women beyond the limits imposed by sexual and social division of work can be an alternative to the process of enforcement of human rights assured to this group by law, but repeatedly denied by culture.