A construção da identidade das mulheres e a luta pela terra no acampamento Herdeiros da Terra de 1º de Maio

Abstract

This work aims to develop in a perspective of women’s identity building and the struggle for land that they pursue. The purpose is to analyze the identity building in the women’s struggle, to identify how it can happen, besides the struggle for land, specially the peasant women in the Landless Worker’s Movement, the area is situated at Herdeiros da Terra de 1º de Maio Camp in Rio Bonito do Iguaçu city, Paraná state; their history life, the political education and the land achievement’s perspectives while they had stayed in the Camp. This work hopes to demonstrate the process of the peasant women’s empowerment building. The methodology selected is going to develop the qualitative research perspective, with five semi-structured interviews of people included in this reality. The preliminary result points to an overcoming of the social difficulties and gender, women’s achievement and an active engagement in the Camp’s life.