Mulher rural e vida cotidiana: trabalho, namoro e casamento no município de Agudo (1940-50)

Abstract

This work aims to present every day situations of four women who lived at small agricultural properties from the city of Agudo, in the decades of 1940-1950. Trough oral reports, the life courses are reconstituted evolving work, dating and marriage. The realities lived by them day-by-day are focused, through the interviews, as protagonists of their own history. Themes such as health, leisure time, family, work, dating and marriage cross each other forming a social dynamics that constitute the attitudes, actions and reactions taken by them as individuals and social group. In this sense, the presented work brings questions evolving the survival at the small agricultural property and considers the woman: worker, mother, wife and administrator as the center of attention in the research and rescues essential aspects of the material support, side by side with men. The courses of the future family constitution; the moral implications from actions and trespasses of what is possible and not possible for the woman being; and the maintenance of the socially established as right or morally accepted are also developed.