De Nova Descoberta/Recife a Brasília: uma luta coletiva das mulheres pela garantia de direitos constitucionais (1975-1988)

Abstract

This article seeks to understand the participation of women from the Mulher Maravilha Group (GMM) from the neighborhood of Nova Descoberta, in the city of Recife, in the context of articulation of social movements and organizations for the National Constituent Assembly 1987-88. The documental basis is composed by oral sources and documents from the physical collection of the Group and the fruitful historiographical literature on redemocratization, social movements, urban peripheral movements, gender studies and feminist movements. Therefore, this research highlights the participation of women from the neighborhood of Nova Descoberta as active subjects in the national articulation that sought the enactment of a new Constitutional Charter that would guarantee civil, social and political rights for women.