This article utilizes as sources memories of women who were feminist militants during the military dictatorship in Brazil and who also participated in the political opening in the country from the mid-1980s. In these memories are investigated, from the point of view of these women, who were politically engaged in feminisms and often in the left, the interlocutions between feminist problematizations about domestic work and the perspectives of a democratic society that begins to be unveiled in those years. Under the slogan "democracy in the country and at home", feminist debates articulated public and private by denouncing the domestic workload that was carried out almost exclusively by women and its consequences for full access to citizenship. This work uses interviews conducted under a broad project coordinated by Professor Cristina ScheibeWollf at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianópolis, Brazil, funded by CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal do Ní­vel Superior), entitled "Mulheres de luta: feminismo e esquerdas no Brasil (1964-1985)", of which this author is a member. The article is based on the perspective of women ´s history and gender relations, as well as the historiographic debates on memory and oral history, crossing a wide bibliography of reference on the feminisms of the period, dictatorship and democratic opening. In this way, the intention is to think about the history of the debate on domestic work headed by feminists of this generation as a focal point for women in the new democratic perspectives that were built in the Brazilian political sphere in the second half of the 1980s.Este artí­culo utiliza como fuente memorias de mujeres que fueron militantes feministas durante la dictadura militar en Brasil y que también participaron de la apertura polí­tica en el paí­s, a partir de mediados de los años 1980. A través de ellas, se investiga, desde el punto de vista de esas mujeres, comprometidas polí­ticamente con los feminismos y muchas veces con las izquierdas, las interlocuciones entre las problematizaciones feministas acerca del trabajo doméstico y la perspectiva de sociedad democrática que se abre durante el perí­odo. Bajo el slogan "democracia en el paí­s y en la casa", los debates feministas articularon lo público y lo privado al denunciar la carga de trabajo doméstico, que era ejecutada casi exclusivamente por las mujeres y sus consecuencias para el pleno acceso de éstas a la ciudadaní­a. Se trabaja desde la perspectiva de la historia de las mujeres y de las relaciones de género, así­ como de los debates historiográficos sobre memoria e historia oral; utilizando amplia bibliografí­a de referencia sobre los feminismos del perí­odo, la dictadura y la apertura democrática. De este modo, se pretende pensar la historia del debate acerca del trabajo doméstico, encabezado por feministas de esa generación, como un punto crucial para las mujeres en nuevas perspectivas democráticas que se construyeron en el ámbito polí­tico brasileño, en la segunda mitad de los años 1980.