Mãe Stella d’Oxóssi: A dissident black body of heterosexuality in disputeEducating for freedom: an extreme case even in libertarian struggles
Mother Stella D'Oxóssi. Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá. Ruth Landes
The present Master's qualification work has the general objective of analyzing how violence against women found the body of Mãe Stella D'Oxóssi: a woman of black ancestry, dissident of heterosexuality and Ialorixá. To do so, I start from the study by Ruth Landes (2002) entitled “A Cidade das Mulheres”, showing her perspective on Brazil, the justification of her research and how it became a reference for Afro-Brazilian studies. Her work is also important insofar as it reveals the matriarchal black power of Salvadoran women in their Candomblé terreiros, passages of racism in everyday social relations and gender roles established at the time. Vera Campos (2002) helps to bring elements about the foundation of the Ilê Axé Opó Afonjá terreiro and the sequence of Ialorixás da casa, as well as the social legacy left by Mother Stella in the construction of a museum, library and a municipal school. Exposes the life of Mother Stella D'Oxóssi; birth, personality, leadership profile, woman, mother and partner of another woman. From this, the work discusses the legal dispute that arose about the wishes and wishes of mother Stella: since her departure from the terreiro to the City of Nazaré-Bahia; the violence suffered by Graziela Domini, Mãe Stella's companion in Ilê Axé, where she was dragged by 4 men, being forced to leave the house.It exposes the death of Mother Stella on December 27, 2018, which culminated in a new legal battle, this time over her body. Finally, it should be noted that the research has a qualitative character and bibliographical exploratory methodology was used for the analysis of the collected information.