Gênero, movimentos sociais e lutas de classe: um estudo de caso sobre a jornada da mulher mãe enquanto militante do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra.

Abstract

Considering the process of social struggles undertaken by MST women, as a form of revolutionary resistance, which shows a new profile for social relations of gender and struggle in the peasant movement, this paper aims to address the process of building of women’s visibility and its intertwining with militancy. The common thread is the trajectory of the militant mothers and how they deal with the challenges of the militant life with motherhood. When one looks at social movements, one often ignores the fact that one of the main political agents is women, making their participation invisible, so that their presence is only recognized when they are protagonists in movements of a feminist nature. The Landless Workers Movement (Portuguese: Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, MST), as the largest social movement in Latin America, has at its bases the agenda of struggle for land through agrarian reform, dialoguing in the fight against inequalities mainly in the Gender sector, making women protagonists of struggle stories primarily fighting for land. The objective of this paper is to present the reports of women militant mothers and their vision of this interweaving of motherhood in parallel with militancy. Because it is research of qualitative character, whose subjects are mothers, female protagonists of their stories, it was decided to examine the data obtained and analysis of the content. The technique used for the procedure was based on interviews from a semi-structured script in relation to motherhood, militancy and struggle for land. The result demonstrates little “visibility” in the image of the militant mother woman, but that the persistence of her protagonism in the struggle for land is fundamental.