Heleieth and the Diff erent Generations of Feminist from NEIM/UFBA

Abstract

Heleieth Saffi oti, the brightest star of academic feminism in Brazil, was one of the godmothers of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Women (Núcleo de Estudos Interdisciplinares sobre a Mulher - NEIM), at the Federal University of Bahia, since its foundation in May 1983. In our almost 37 years of existence, we already count on three diff erent generations of feminist researchers, all of them admirers of Heleieth Saffi oti and for whom Woman in class society still has a lot to say and to incite refl ections. In this article, two generations of our researchers - one of the oldest (Cecilia) and the other of the youngest (Maira) - develop a conversation with Heleieth, in a reinterpretation of her ‘masterpiece’, which stands not only as her fi rst major publication, but also as the greatest contribution of Brazilian academic feminism to the world.