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Feminino e Masculino: Uma Nova Consciência para o Encontro das Diferenças

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Por que homens e mulheres são tão diferentes? Dois dos principais pensadores contemporâneos, Leonardo Boff e Rose Marie Muraro, tentam analisar este questionamento — e sua possível resposta — em uma obra provocadora, agora com nova edição pela Record, que resulta em um tratado fundamental para as questões de gênero. Neste livro, os autores fazem uma reflexão profunda da sexualidade e mostram como os conflitos entre os gêneros podem levar à destruição da humanidade. Ambos chegam às mesmas conclusões por caminhos totalmente diferentes. Boff traça um panorama da sexualidade desde os primeiros seres vivos até hoje, analisa a evolução do homem e aborda os aspectos biológicos, históricos, sociais e teológicos da construção do feminino e do masculino. Seu texto é o de um homem que vive o seu masculino. Ele é teórico, generalizante, mas, diferentemente de outros homens, vive também seu feminino da maneira mais profunda. É um escrito cheio de ternura e amorosidade. Rose, por sua vez, detém-se sobre os processos simbólicos e faz articulações entre a sexualidade, a família e o sistema econômico. Seu trabalho é complementado por uma pesquisa com 1.259 brasileiras e brasileiras de diversas classes sociais. Ao invés de serem divergentes, os textos convergem naturalmente entre si em suas proposições para um mundo no qual homens e mulheres não mais sejam estranhos um para o outro, mas, sim, companheiros e companheiras. A edição conjunta de Leonardo Boff e Rose Marie Muraro vai muito além da mera junção de dois textos de autores diversos. Como teóricos, objetivam resultados idênticos, mesmo cruzando caminhos diferentes. Como pessoas, dão seu testemunho e engajam-se nos movimentos sociais pelos excluídos e pelas mulheres. E vêem, principalmente, a sexualidade e o gênero como pontos básicos das mudanças necessárias para um melhor convívio pessoal entre homens e mulheres e para o estabelecimento de nova ordem social mais justa, menos violenta e, acima de tudo, solidária. FEMININO E MASCULINO é uma obra instigante, que questiona as grandes teorias patriarcais, a psicanálise freudiana e até a teologia produzida a partir do ponto de vista masculino. Como dizia Rainer Maria Rilke, só quando o homem e a mulher se integrarem novamente é que a humanidade poderá reviver.

287 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

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Leonardo Boff

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Leonardo Boff, born as Genézio Darci Boff, in Concórdia, Santa Catarina, Brazil, on the December 14, 1938. He is the grandson of Italian immigrants from the region of Veneto who came to Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in the final part of the nineteenth century. He received his primary and secondary education in Concórdia - Santa Catarina, Rio Negro - Paraná, and Agudos - São Paulo. He studied Philosophy in Curitiba - Paraná and Theology in Petrópolis - Rio de Janeiro. He joined the Order of the Franciscan Friars Minor in 1959 and received his doctorate in Philosophy and Theology from the University of Munich - Germany, in 1970.
For 22 years he was the professor of Systematic and Ecumenical Theology at the Franciscan Theological Institute in Petrópolis. He has served as a professor of Theology and Spirituality in various centers of higher learning and universities in Brazil and the rest of the world, in addition to being a visiting professor at the universities of Lisbon (Portugal), Salamanca (Spain), Harvard (United States), Basel (Switzerland), and Heidelberg (Germany).
He was present in the first reflections that sought to articulate indignance toward misery and marginalization with discourse, which later generated the Christian faith known as Liberation Theology. He has always been an ardent of the Human Rights cause, helping to formulate a new, Latin American perspective on Human Rights with, “Rights to Life and the ways to maintain them with dignity.”
He has received honorary doctorates, in Politics from the University of Turin (Italy) and in Theology for the University of Lund (Sweden). He has also been honored with various awards, within Brazil and the rest of the world, for his struggles on behalf of the weak, the oppressed and marginalized, and Human Rights.
From 1970 until 1985 he participated in the editorial council of Editora Vozes. During this time he participated in the coordination and publication of the collection, “Theology and Liberation” and the entire edition of the works of C. G. Jung. He was Editor-in-chief of “Revista Eclesiástica Brasileira” from 1970 to 1984, of “Revista de Cultura Vozes” from 1984 to 1992, and of “Revista Internacional Concilium” from 1970 to 1995.
In 1984, he was submitted to a process by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, former Holy Office, in the Vatican. This was due to his theses linked to liberation theology exposed in his book "Church: Charism and Power. In 1985 he was condemned to “obsequious silence” and was removed from his editorial functions and suspended from religious duties. Due to international pressure on the Vatican, the decision was repealed in 1986, allowing him to return to some of his previous activities.
In 1992, under renewed threats of a second punitive action by authorities in Rome, he renounced his activities as a priest and ‘promoted himself the state of laity.’ “I changed trenches to continue the same fight.” He continues as a liberation theologian, writer, professor, widely hear conference speaker in Brazil among other countries, also as an adviser of social movements of liberating popular matrix, as the Landless Movement and the Base Ecclesial Communities (CEBs), between others.
In 1993 he was selected as professor of Ethics, Philosophy of Religion and Ecology at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ).
On December 8, 2001 he was honored with the alternative Nobel prize, “Right Livelihood Award” in Stockholm, Sweden.
He presently lives in Jardim Araras, an ecological wilderness area on the municipality of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro. He shares his life and dreams with the defender/educator of Human Rights from a new ecological paradigm, Marcia Maria Monteiro de Miranda. He has also become the “father by affinity” of a daughter and five sons, sharing the joys and sorrows of responsible parenthood. He lives, accompanies and recreates the unfolding of life in the “grandkids” Marina, Eduardo and Maira.

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November 21, 2024
No soy fan de leer este tipo de libros, pero es un libro que invita a reflexionar sobre la complementariedad entre lo femenino y lo masculino y el autor aborda el tema con una perspectiva integradora y sensible, ayudándonos a comprender cómo estas energías, lejos de ser opuestas, se complementan y enriquecen mutuamente. Es una lectura accesible, llena de sabiduría y humanidad, que realmente te deja pensando en la importancia de reconocer y valorar las diferencias para construir relaciones más equilibradas y conscientes.
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Profile Image for Pato W.
146 reviews
January 31, 2025
Para lectores advierto, este libro ocupa un entendimiento del psicoanálisis para sacarle su máximo provecho.

Lo sentí sin mucho orden ni dirección. En ocasiones decía cosas interesantes pero en su mayoría era olvidable. No anda tan complicado.
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49 reviews38 followers
May 29, 2022
A parte escrita pelo Leonardo Boff é muito boa, a escrita pela Rose é péssima.
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