BEING A PEASANT WOMAN ON MID WEST BRAZIL: THE WOMEN EXPERIENCE AT RURAL SETTLEMENTS OF PATRÍCIA E APARECIDA AND ESTRELA DA LUA AS THE ESSENCE OF OTHER HISTORICAL NARRATIVES
Oral History; peasant women; Brasília-DF; life experience; gender relations
The hegemonic historical narratives, often written by men, has silenced about the active roll of women on western society and estructural gender interactions, inside and beyound the private domain. Under the optics of Oral History, this dissertation intends to understand and explore the sociocultural behavior of peasant societies, from six peasant women’s perpective. They dwell at two peasant sattlements, Patrícia e Aparecida and Estrela da Lua, located at Brasília, Brazil; where the interviews took place. Due to ist specific features and content, Oral History sources imposed further thinking on aspects of peasant way of life, as land tenure conflicts and difficulties of habitual labor, greatly influenced by social class and gender aspects. Thus, the life experience of those women has contributed for a better understanding of rural settlements history, in Brasília-DF, Brazil; as well as brought light on structural gender relations on peasant societies from the past and the present days.