Rural workers women and Land Struggle: Linking gender, work and territory

Abstract

The construction of relations of gender inside Land Struggle territories (establishments and camps), of Brazilian Rural Workers Without Land, it can only be understood starting from the social process that defines them. The camped workers' social functions change once they become to have seated, what directly rebounds in the reduction of their political and social space. The principal concern under discussion takes roots in the need of unmasking structural and local processes of social and sexual division of work. They create and recreate the hegemonic ideology, which address the relations of gender with maintaining the status quo of the social control objective.