Os modos de (re)existir e de se organizar: Do “Grupo de Mulheres” às “Mulheres Organizadas Buscando Independência”

Abstract

The present study aims to understand the subjects' production from and in MOBI (Organized Women Seeking Independence) by seeking to read the familiar aspect of agriculture and rural organizations through the feminist perspective. From MOBI, as of the subjectivity constitution of every woman, and in MOBI, by the collective subjectivity and the relations established with COOPFAM (Family Farmers Cooperative of Poço Fundo). In relation to the theoretical framework, I resort to the feminist studies approach with Foucault; the post-structuralist reading of gender and its performativity as a device. Regarding the Foucauldian studies, I address the power relations and read the western modern patriarchy as a field of study of its devices, the employment contract and the marriage contract; I also approach the constitution of the feminism subjects as of subjection and power-knowledge fields; and the feminine and masculine production upon work in family farming. With respect to the methodological approach, I present the fieldwork, a qualitative research developed through the experiences and affections produced by observing daily life. The co-construction of the data collected through the thematic interviews and the MOBI oral history was made from the experiences of thirteen women in the collective. Moreover, the analyzes of the transcribed interviews were done by means of thematic content analysis. Two categories were developed, one aimed at understanding women work in the rural context and another focused on the MOBI oral history, based on the Foucauldian genealogy. Through the analyzes, it was perceived that the power-knowledge relations about gender produce the subjects in the rural environment in terms of their work, which still entails the persistent masculinization of organizational environments. Nonetheless, as a result of the productive nature of power, Organized Women Seeking Independence are produced from their individual subjectivity to their collective. They build a field of organizational possibilities and their own devices to be present in the organizational context of the MOBI-COOPAM relationship.