A marcha pela vida das mulheres e pela agroecologia: um diálogo interseccional com as mulheres negras

Abstract

This dissertation has as its central theme intersectionality in the March for women's lives and Agroecology from the perspective of black women who make up the women's movement at Polo da Borborema. Furthermore, its central focus was to understand the social place and struggle and resistance of black women in the March, based on the life stories and struggles of these women, and their experience within the collective movement of women workers. from rural areas of the Polo da Borborema. Thus, the general objective of the present study is to understand, based on the narratives of black women participating in the March, how the movement approaches intersectionality and establishes the articulation between gender, race/ethnicity and class in their discussions. In this sense, we insert the discussion in the field of black feminism, particularly in the studies of gender and power relations, Social and Human Rights and Social Service as an analysis of the expressions of the social issue that affect these women from the intersection of markers of oppression of class, gender and race, also being explored in the methodological path, popular peasant feminism. The text was referenced based on the work of black feminist theorists, such as Bell Hooks (1984; 2015; 2019), Lélia Gonzales (1984), Sueli Carneiro (2003), Carla Akotirene (2019), Kimberlé Crenshaw (2002) and Patricia Hill Collins (2017). The qualitative research was developed from the case study and the oral life history methodology and had as instruments, in addition to documentary sources, such as photographs, testimonies collected in semi-structured interviews carried out with black women who participated in the March for women's life and Agroecology. As for the data collected in the interviews, a content analysis was carried out, as set out in the work of Laurence Bardin. The research collaborators are black women and peasant workers who participate in the March, chosen in conjunction with the Polo da Borborema women's movement, in a meeting dedicated to this purpose. The women are between 19 years old and 57 years old and are residents of the municipalities of Esperança, Montadas, Queimadas and Remígio. It was observed from the narratives of the research interlocutors that the March for women's lives and Agroecology is part of an intersectional perspective, as it understands the particularities of the oppressions suffered by black women from the intersection of gender, class and race relations and which historically position these women in subordinate positions in relation to black men and white women. The conclusion obtained was reached based on the narratives of the interlocutors and the playful materials analyzed, such as the songs sung in the movement that enshrine the resistance of black women.