Trajetórias e identidades de mulheres no MST no Assentamento Rondinha - Jóia/RS

Abstract

The Landless Workers' Movement (MST, in the Brazilian Portuguese acronym) is indispensable for understanding and analyzing rural social movements and their structures of action, organization, and political formation. Therefore, the present work aims to analyze the collective and individual identity of the militant women settled in the MST, seeking to understand, from their trajectories, how the identity of women is constructed along their trajectory of the struggle for land and in settlements of Agrarian Reform linked to the MST. The methodology was qualitative research and was operationalized with the theoretical-methodological approach of Trajectory Analysis, with participant observation, and semi-structured interviews with women settled in Rondinha (Jóia/RS). Thus, through the research, it was possible to perceive that the trajectories and identities of these women from Rondinha are inserted in the rural and gender logic. The reports of the women interviewed indicate gender roles and violence as obstacles to reproducing the identity of landless women, which began, for them, with the encampments. Thus, it highlights the logic of gender roles as a crucial factor in rural and power relations, as a way of perpetuating gender inequalities and violence, especially for women.