“Arroz deu cacho e o feijão floriô”: Análise do Coletivo de Mulheres “Arte é Vida” do Assentamento Cristina Alves

Abstract

Through the work of the Collective of Women’s Arte é Vida do Settlement Cristina Alves, linked to the MST and located in the municipality of Itapecuru-Mirim/Ma, it was possible to analyze its impact on the socioeconomic reality of women from the prism of valuing female work. . Through this study, it was possible to verify some advances and continuities regarding the valorization of female work and the search for gender equity. The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) is a social movement that has an objective far beyond the right to Agrarian Reform, it also seeks a radical change in the sexist, oppressive, segregating structure of nature degradation that are hallmarks of the model of capitalist society. Through this work, we will approach the historical aspects of the Brazilian Agrarian Question, contextualizing the emergence of the MST. It was noticed that, even though women were side by side with men, their performance did not immediately materialize in the recognition of their relevance to the organization of the MST, because at first the subjects were homogenized in favor of the class struggle, of so that the specific demands of women were put on the back burner. Only after much struggle by women was it recognized that it is not possible to think of a new model of sociability without putting the inequalities suffered by women on the agenda. Women not only produce food and work on the land, they are also sources of economic care and care within their communities, and they carry out a double shift with production and domestic work that is naturalized as a feminine attribute.