A fábrica das sete mulheres: gênero e diversificação dos meios de vida na agricultura familiar

Abstract

The study aims to analyze gender relations in rural areas and how their social and economic organization has helped in the transformation of power relations in domestic and public spaces. The research used the livelihoods approach and sought to identify how these strategies influenced the transformation of the social and economic relations of a group of women in rural areas, as well as using the approach of decolonial feminism to understand their forms of resistance. The construction of the research took place through qualitative and quantitative analysis procedures, seeking to present an interdisciplinary character both in the collection methodology and in the data analysis. The field work consisted in the realization of a case study in an association of seven women that composes a Rural Family Agroindustry in Pranchita-PR, the establishment presents as differential the fact that the seven women are responsible for all stages of the productive process, Involving besides the production, the financial control and the commercialization strategies of the agroindustry. In this way, we sought to identify the bottlenecks, the means and the alternatives found by the rural women, as well as the networks of relationships that the process built on their journey up to here. It was then possible to perceive the diverse peculiarities of the strategies of resistance adopted by rural women and how important they are to female empowerment and, at the same time, guarantor of the social reproduction strategies of family agriculture.