HISTORICAL-LEGAL EVOLUTION OF WOMEN'S RIGHT TO ACCESS URBAN LAND TENURE IN BRAZIL

The purpose of this article is to analyze the historical context in Brazil that structured access to land property under exclusionary criteria, based on social markers of gender, race and class, which also acted on the construction of related legislation and, for a long time, were obstacles to women's access to land and its secure tenure, a right that only more recently, since the 2000s, has been promoted by laws and public policies on housing and land regularization. In order to understand this scenario, a historical, bibliographical and documental survey was used, about the national legislations and International Conventions directed to the attendance of the access to urban land tenure and adequate housing for women, as well as about the land regularization policy of social interest in Brazil and about the urbanistic instruments mediating these processes, in order to understand the advances achieved in the Brazilian legal system as to the guarantee of the right to secure tenure and decent housing to women.