Abstract:
The central discussion of this work is about how sexual rights and reproductive rights (DSDR) appear in the presidential election campaign in Brazil, in 2018. Starting from the theological research field of Feminist Theology and its hermeneutics, the methodology that supports this study presupposes awareness processes of the Dance of wisdom, proposed by Elisabeth S. Fiorenza. The categories of experience and suspicion are adopted to describe the context in a deconstruction movement, to narrate and transcribe the sources in a process of reconstruction and to present interpretive movements in a construction perspective. In the first chapter, the social and political factors that made up the scenario of the 2018 election campaign in Brazil are contextualized, introducing the discussion about the participation of women in politics. In it, some concepts of the DSDR are presented, as well as examples of political mobilizations to confront the discussion of gender and sexuality. Also depicted are social and popular mobilizations that address the DSDR, such as “Ni una menos”, “# elenão”, and the public hearing of the Federal Supreme Court on abortion - ADPF 442. In the second chapter it was a question of describing the sources selected by the research through narrative and transcripts, as they refer to audiovisual content: extracts from the debate of the candidates for vice-presidency; fragments of the debate of the candidates and presidential candidate, organized and broadcast by Rede TV; and a fragment of the interview of candidate Jair Bolsonaro, given to Jornal Nacional, from Rede Globo. In the third and last chapter, the construction of a study based on feminist theologies was developed in this exercise of a hermeneutics of suspicion, pointing out which theologies are supported by the speeches of the candidates, what they promote and what contributions the feminist epistemologies and hermeneutics offer for this discussion. Finally, among the conclusions reached by this dissertation is the understanding of a theological culture aligned with a patriarchal political-economic project that disqualifies and demoralizes women when discussing the sexual and reproductive dimension of their bodies and lives.
