Social movements and the political formation of women in the fight for day care: the experience of “Artcreche” in São Gonçalo

The article aims to inventory and update the struggle of urban social movements, especially the São Gonçalo Daycare Center (ArtCreche), which since 1980 has been building a collective agenda of demands and struggles with public power and civil society in São Gonçalo. From a theoretical-conceptual point of view, we focus on ArtCreche's struggle through dialogue with authors who refer to the outbreak of popular movements in the 1980s, as well as their ebb in the post-democratization period in Brazil, to the context of changes facing the classic and contemporary paradigms of popular participation. In the article we investigate the struggle of women for the right to day care based on a qualitative, participatory research, that intends to investigate the daily work and struggles of a group of popular educators of the ARTCreche Movement, based on semi-structured interviews , prioritizing an analysis of local power in dialogue with contemporary struggles for the right to day care in the urban peripheries.