Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ISIS TOMAS DA SILVA

MOTHERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 

PERMANENCE POLICIES, GENDER, RACE AND CLASS AND WOMEN'S 

CONFACES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO (USP) AND THE FEDERAL 

RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO (UFRRJ).

Maternity at university – Permanence policy – Black women’s movement – Racism.

When thinking about the beginning of university culture in Brazil, this space was always 

occupied by male, white and financially privileged people, however, this scenario began 

to change as a result of affirmative policies that sought to insert the popular classes into 

university seats, especially black people. However, from the range of students served by 

such public policies, this research seeks to observe, particularly women, giving greater 

emphasis to poor black women, with experience of motherhood and its impacts on 

academic life.

Therefore, the general objective of this research was to investigate the contexts, conditions

and opportunities experienced by black and non-black undergraduate and postgraduate 

students, putting into discussion the permanence policies and their effects, highlighting 

the student housing at USP and UFRRJ, so that it is possible to measure the relationship

 between the trajectory of university women who are mothers, the quality of their training,

 and the achievement of a diploma.
To achieve this objective, the research covers the history of female education in Brazil, 

explores concepts such as the social and sexual division of labor and highlights the 

contributions of social movements to the black population's access to education, with 

special attention to the role of women black. Furthermore, it examines how public 

educational policies, always influenced by elitism, racism and patriarchalism, have 

evolved, up to the challenges of current times.
The methodology adopted involves an integrated approach, combining bibliographic

 review, photographic resources and interviews.