As jovens do Movimento de Mulheres Camponesas (MMC): trabalho, família e projetos de vida.

Abstract

The MMC/SC Peasant Women's Movement in the state of Santa Catarina is a women's movement that, since 2004, has become national in character and has increased its presence in various Brazilian states. Allied to Via Campesina, the movement's principle struggles are for rights, equality and the Strengthening of family agricuhureThe focus of this thesis is directly linked to this construction process, especially related to the axes of gender and class, whose experience has made possible the emergence of a new social political subject: young rural women. To this end, I apply Eduard Thompson's theoretical references - bringing to the forefront the category "experience" - while using, as my baseline methodology, oral history and ethnography. In conclusion, this thesis has found that the young women of the second millennium's first decade want to live differently to their fathers and mothers; many of them don't passively accept their living conditions. Rather they struggle for access to land, to income and to education with the aim of constructing "a better life".