Female university presidents and social reproduction: paths to the transformation of Venezuelan society
Name: EUDEL IRENE SEIJAS NIEVES
Publication date: 14/04/2025
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ALBA CAROSIO | Examinador Externo |
| ARELYS ESQUENAZI BORREGO | Examinador Interno |
| ELIZA BARTOLOZZI FERREIRA | Examinador Interno |
| LIVIA DE CASSIA GODOI MORAES | Presidente |
| MARIA LUCIA TEIXEIRA GARCIA | Examinador Interno |
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Summary: The main objective of this thesis is to analyze how female university professors in university president positions can favor the modification processes of the condition of value's production and the reproduction of life in Venezuelan public universities, and therefore, in society. This is a social investigation with a qualitative approach carried out through Marx's historical dialectic method and the feminist theory of social reproduction based on the trajectory of women in university teaching and their experience facing university president positions in Venezuela. Through six chapters, the university landscape and higher education policies in Venezuela are addressed with a gender perspective, the theory of social reproduction and the processes of production and reproduction of subjectivities of women in university, Venezuelan universities and the processes of democratization/universalization and professionalization of women, female university professors between the production of value and social reproduction, and the challenges of university transformation in Venezuela. We conclude that since women entered universities, significant changes began in the conditions of value’s production and reproduction of life, through the multiple subjectivities that accompany them as they make their way into capitalist society. The latter, thanks to the need to expand the workforce, grants women particular forms of work that are directly or indirectly related or combined with the work of social reproduction, which have the power to humanize certain spaces and, in part, escape the logic of the capitalist system as well as state power .For this reason, we are committed to the formation of new subjectivities, beyond capital, proposing to female university professors in university president positions, to join in the fight for the social reproduction of the working class through solidarity as part of the paths for the transformation of society.
