A mulher camponesa na luta pela terra: entre a resistência e a reprodução do patriarcado nos assentamentos do Oeste do Paraná

Abstract

This article analyzes the (in)visibility of peasant women in land struggles and rural settlements in Western Paraná, seeking to understand how the legal and symbolic structures of the countryside reproduce gender inequalities and how women’s practices of resistance reconfigure the meaning of agrarian justice. A qualitative and interdisciplinary approach is adopted, articulating Agrarian Law, Rural Sociology, and Gender Studies, based on a bibliographic review and empirical analysis of five settlements in the region. The research is grounded in the hypothesis that women’s exclusion in rural areas results from the persistence of a patriarchal rationality embedded in the historical formation of Brazilian land law. The results indicate that the emancipation of peasant women goes beyond the economic sphere; settled women, through their daily resistance, produce knowledge of care and solidarity, promoting a gender-based agrarian justice that challenges private property and proposes a new social function for land.