ABSTRACT

Gender inequality (imbricated with class and race inequalities) is a social and historical problem with serious objective and subjective consequences. It produces suffering collectively shared by oppressed groups. This text is a reflection on suffering and resistance, based on the memories and life stories of women who participate in feminist social movements. We seek to apprehend the meanings and psychological transformations that accompany this political participation, especially in the context of a feminist, anti-racist and anti-capitalist social movement: World March of Women. Starting from the biographical trajectory of a deponent, we reflect on psychosocial aspects of silence and speech as linked to historical processes of domination and exploitation, of resistance and confrontations.

KEYWORDS:
Gender; race and class relations; Rooting; Memory; Feminist Social movements; Social humiliation