The Anti-Asylum Movement in Brazil

Objectives: There are two objectives of this study. One is to recover the historical trajectory of the anti-asylum movement in Brazil and the other is to analyze some of its successes, difficulties, and challenges

El movimiento antimanicomial en Brasil

Objetivos: Dos son los objetivos de este trabajo, uno es rescatar la trayectoria histórica del movimiento antimanicomial en Brasil y otro, analizar algunos de sus logros, dificultades y desafíos

The Political Representation of Women in Public Policy Management Councils

This work raises some hypotheses to explain the significant presence of women on public policy management councils, which are spaces for discussion and deliberation of policies that have been implemented in Brazil in recent decades. The data about the profile of representatives on these spaces indicates a situation inversely proportional to the low degree of political inclusion of women in traditional spaces of political representation – executive positions, city councils, and state legislatures. There is thus a need to develop new analytical tools to understand the phenomenon of political representation. The data also question a reductive perspective of action and politics, which concludes that there is a low degree of political inclusion of women