As mulheres e as cercas: a divisão sexual do trabalho e da política no assentamento Nova Vida I.

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the process of the sexual division of labor and politics within the rural settlement Nova Vida I, investigating how power relations and domination are established and how these materialize in the life of the settled woman, understanding the issue from the place of the rural worker and from her political participation in the struggle. The method used was the dialectical critic, because it allowed to appropriate the object of study in its multiple determinations. The field research consisted of semi-structured interviews with 05 (five) women participants in the struggle process in the Settlement Nova Vida I. The analysis focuses on the relationships that are woven in the field, as well as the determinants that impede and / or hinder participation in community coordination and direction. Through the research it was possible to identify that the participation of women played a fundamental role in the struggle for land in the Várzeas de Sousa-PB, even though it was not a majority within the coordination teams of the camp. Likewise, the strong relationship of male domination over women is represented in the figure of the husband or men who coordinate popular organizations in the community, thus expressing the gender inequality in the New Life I settlement. woman realizes the invisibility of domestic work, marked by the sexual division of labor, in the public space women face the political invisibility that results from the sexual division of politics, however, women create strategies with the intention of breaking with the fences of patriarchy, machismo and prejudices that affect both at home and in political spaces. In this sense, it is understood the importance of the participation of women in the feminist movements because they favor in the process of self-care construction and autonomy of the same.