Bruxa artista professora: três espectros do feminino enclausurado

Abstract

Witch artist teacher: three spectra of the cloistered feminine —The evocation of the witch-artist teacher aims to think of new tactics of libertarian teaching. Performing the female gender as an exercise in confronting spaces of confinement ofthe female reveals how arbitrary and violent are the normative roles constructed by the binary pattern of the patriarchal society. With capoeira and art produced by women, we enter into the dispute for power over our bodies causing shifts in roles and logics. We conclude that binary thinking is the epistemological foundation underlining the alleged “nature”of the feminine that characterizes women as caregivers and passives, making the teacher the stereotyped figure of the “aunt”, a gentle figure that serves to domesticate and appease, a central instrument in producing docile subjects