Rural spaces and gender representations: the material bases of symbolic violence against rural women in Galicia (Spain) and the Northeast (Brazil)
las bases materiales de la violencia simbólica contra las mujeres rurales gallegas (España) y nordestinas (Brasil)
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https://doi.org/10.62516/terra_livre.2021.2342Keywords:
espacio rural, mujeres, violenciaAbstract
This article analyses the relationship between rural space and social representations of gender. Specifically, we are interested in understanding how the symbolic dimension of two specific forms of violence, patriarchal and/or gender-based violence and urban discrimination of the rural, condition the social representation that women farmers have of themselves and of rurality. The qualitative research method is the basis of the study and the in-depth interview is the main technique. The areas selected were Galicia, in the north of Spain, and Paraíba, in the north-east of Brazil. We analysed the daily practices of women farmers and identified the social representations that women farmers' collectives have about the rural world and the presence of women in it. The results allow us to affirm that the symbolic dimension of the different forms of gender violence and territorial violence, which accompany the life history of these women, condition the construction of their representations of the rural world and of themselves. However, the ever-renewed presence of women in productive spaces points to a constant feminine re-signification of the rural world.
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