This article is intended to question whether the ideas developed by Heleieth Saffioti can be read as a contribution to the analysis of the Formation of Brazil. Thus, it presents the author’s reading on patriarchal relations in the country, explaining that the formation of Brazilian society was impregnated with patriarchal domination, bringing the perspective of women to this analysis. We established a dialogue with Florestan Fernandes, based on the idea of reminiscences of social relations from the “past in the present”. Finally, advancing in what we understand as the theoretical-methodological leap of the author, we make an exposition about her contribution to the reading of the gender trouble in Brazilian society, with her formulations on the knot (gender, race / ethnicity and class) fundamental to the understanding of relationships in contemporary capitalist society.
Heleieth Saffioti; Patriarchy; Social formation; Node; Capitalism