FEMINIST URBANISM: from seclusion at home to the right to the city

Abstract

From the understanding of cities as spaces constructed and modified by social arrangements and political norms, another perspective is suggested in its historiographical analysis, based on the central problem of the traditional distance of women from urbanistic decisions. In this context, the general objective of the research is to examine their invisibility in urban planning over time. Derived from methodological procedures of review of secondary sources, the results are structured in four main parts, according to historical ages: Ancient – between matriarchies and patri-systemas; Medium – between confinement and seclusion; Modern – between isonomies and inequalities; and Contemporary – between duties and rights. In these scenarios, they attest to the guiding hypothesis of deprivation of female participation in the process, with the answers to the investigative question pointing to ways of overcoming this retrospective omission, supported by principles of feminist urbanism in the search for the right to the city for different genders.

Key words: feminine invisibility; urban planning; historical periods; gender perspective.