"Constitutionalization of domestic labor in Brazil as an experiment of freedom".
domestic labor; constituent assembly; authoritarianism; economic value; livature.
This partial thesis report presents research path and preliminary results on the constitutionalization of domestic employment in Brazil since the agency of domestic workers' associations during the constituent process of 1987-1988. The research problem is to analyze the relationship between authoritarianism and racial democracy in the emergence of the New Republic from the struggle of the category for fundamental rights. Interweaving surveillance, exploitation and rebellion, it is understood that the posthumous life of slavery is related to the representation and expropriation of the sexual body of the native-slave, guaranteeing the occlusion of the economic value of her work. From a set of sources that include annals of the ANC, newspapers of the time, reports from the National Information Service and interviews, livature is mobilized to narrate beyond the critics of the transparent subject. The idea of experiment that animates the project carries notions of beauty and autonomy in the lives of black women.