http://lattes.cnpq.br/9596131502685732; SANTOS, Michela Katiúscia Calaça Alves dos.
Abstract:
This research has the objective of analyzing the forms of articulation of the fight against
capitalism, patriarchy and racism, in the construction and adoption processes of “Popular
Peasant Feminism” by the women organized in the Coordinadoria Latinoamericana de
Organizaciones del Campo (Cloc) and in the Brazilian Movement of Peasant Women (MMC).
Our work is grounded on the historical and dialectical materialist method, with a participatory
research methodology, as it is impossible to separate the researcher from the activist, who
studies the very object she builds up, participating in reflection spaces and political decisionmaking,
like attendance in and organization of debate meetings about Popular Peasant
Feminism. In this methodology, we also used document analysis and survey conduction. This
work has made it possible to comprehend how patriarchy, racism and capitalism intertwine in
the exploitation, oppression and domination of Latin American and Caribbean peoples.
Furthermore, it was possible to unveil the diverse forms of peasant resistance, focusing
especially on the resistance of peasant women, who contributed, through the articulation of their
fights, to the broadening of the definition of being feminist. This research had as a result the
systematization of the construction process of Popular Peasant Feminism, its political demands
and its vision of transforming reality through socialism, agroecology, feminism and food
sovereignty, holding the political unity of diverse experiences as the principal driving force of
this change.