Mulheres quilombolas: construção e reconstrução de territórios e identidades

Abstract

The quilombola women today represent important figures to understand the process of social constitution of the country, especially considering the condition that women are still in society and in the struggle for equality. In addition to relationship with the territory is an important example to understand the economic dynamics of the country as a whole. Thus, it is intended here to discuss what represents the territorial identity for these women and how they relate to the society. Bringing together different approaches to create an initial scenario to understand the dynamics around the Quilombola territories, using in large measure the representation, vision and the relationships that the quilombola women have on their territories. This data will be used and the existing literature that deals on gender, quilombolas and own context colonizer that created the social dynamics seen even today. With the meeting of these different points, there will be a brief analysis on the quilombo of Picadinha territory in the city of Dourados, considering its constitution, and permanence in the region. As well as the current dynamics of the quilombo and especially of women who composes around of society in the region. And as these dynamics ultimately affect the group and its territorial identity as quilombola community.