Relações de gênero e movimento sindical: relatos e vivências das mulheres no sindicato dos trabalhadores rurais de Uiraúna - PB.

Abstract

This research aims to analyze how they were and are constructed and experienced gender relations in the Rural Workers Union in the city of Uiraúna - PB, since its formation in 1972 until the present day. Following a social current historiography, to understand the history of men and women through social movements (feminist and labor) that seethed from 1970, for better living conditions, gender equality within these collective institutions and women's invisibility in the trajectory trade unions, the paper discusses, through oral reports (interviews) conducted with members who lived and actively participated in this organization and trade union struggle, and analysis of internal documents (records of members, union status, the minutes), as are drawn up, reworked and included gender relations. In this sense, analyzes the limits, difficulties, conflicts and inequalities expressed by men and women within that institution created to defend the rights of rural workers. The exercise of this work provides a reflection on the recognition of the subject and their ability to transform social reality, and discuss the trajectory of life of rural workers in the quest for recognition as a subject of law and examine the role of gender in the construction and constitutions the SRT Uiraúna-PB.