Abstract
This article aims to verify how the environmental crisis affects subaltern women in Brazil, listing factors that led to the precariousness of their quality of life and to the process of feminization of poverty. In this way, using the inductive method, initially it reviews some of the main elements treated by the theoretical frameworks of the ecological justice and ecological politics, showing that the environmental risks and impacts are shared unequally among the various social groups, which hits women disproportionately. At a second moment, it presents the concept of gender social organization as essential for the understanding of the subaltern position occupied by women in societies once colonized, which is done from the theoretical contribution of the decolonial feminisms. Afterwards, it demonstrates how the process of feminization of poverty exposes most women to environmental risks and impacts, emphasizing the pragmatic perspective of ecological justice as a possible path for the promotion of gender equality.
Keywords:
Coloniality; Environmental crisis; Feminization of poverty; Gender; Women