Movimento de mulheres camponesas na trajetória feminista brasileira: uma experiência de luta por direitos e liberdade

Abstract

The Movement of Peasant Women (MMC) is a feminist and peasant movement, wich has waged struggles for women's rights and the realization of a Popular Project for Agriculture in Brazil. This Master's thesis aims to analyze the struggles and political ideas of this movement and its activities at Via Campesina. For this purpose, at first, we will do notes on social movements and agrarian issue. In a second stage of the dissertation , we will discuss the basics of exploitation -domination of women in modern society, the organization of these in the feminist movement and the relationship between feminism and socialism, bringing the theoretical contribution both Marxists classics as scholars of gender to the contemporary understanding of these issues . That work also presents the results of field research about the MMC , which covers topics such as self - organization of women , understanding the movement about the reality of female exploitation , their main demands and struggles, and their political contribution to the Via Campesina - since the MMC is the only self-organized movement of women inside. Finally, we will present some challenges faced by women's movements today.