This thesis aims to analyze the lives of women living in Favela da Rocinha, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, questioning the ways and possibilities of acting and resisting the daily processes of oppression and how the territory influences and often delimits their daily experience. The study was carried out from the year of 2007, which marks the beginning of the federal government s Program for Accelerating Urban Growth-Urbanization of Precarious Settlements (PAC-UAP), to the present day. The object of this research is, then, women s territoriality, i. e., how women s deliberate actions and daily practices to resist oppression shape the stigmatized territory of the squatter settlement, despite violence and the absence of the State, which considers this territory as not belonging to the city. This thesis intends to analyze women s actions that reconfigure the favela s territory through resistance practices and participation in political collectives and NGOs. The favela Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro, was chosen as the universe of analysis for the important role of women as social and political activists since the beginning of the settlement of this neighborhood, which has a long history of community mobilization and fighting for rights. The research utilizes dialectical and inductive methodological procedures, through the articulation of concepts from feminist critical theory with participant observation in local group meetings in Rocinha. As a result, it is expected that the research will contribute from a gender perspective to the elaboration of public policies, projects and strategies for the upgrading projects of slums that take into account the issues of women in these territories.