A dança do ventre: e o empoderamento das mulheres

Abstract

The work is a production that sought to answer the questions arising from the following question: is there empowerment in the practice of belly dancing? To answer this question, we made use of the contributions of Social Constructionism, mainly in the methodological aspects. The objective was to understand the meanings of belly dance and its relationship with the empowerment of women throughout four chapters, we made a historical trace of the origins of belly dance and identified four senses for dance. We present the use of the woman category in a gender perspective as a form of theoretical and ethical positioning. We also present the social constructions of the feminine and the meanings produced in different historical times. We built the historical matrices of empowerment and described the various uses of empowerment found in two databases. We present the way to analyze the material found, that is, the theme-field, in addition to the survey in the databases and in the literature. We believe that there is an empowerment of women through belly dancing. However, this process takes place through struggles and resistances. Through a subject body and agent of transformation, in which it allows space and conditions for the resignification and naming of new meanings for a body in action.