Life pathways, community action and educational practices of peasant women from Caetité-Bahia

Abstract

This article is the result of a Scientific Initiation research, whose objective is to describe the life trajectories, community action and educational practices carried out and/or experienced by women who participate in the Movimento de Mulheres Camponesas (MMC) of Caetité-BA. In addition, it aims to understand how the process of growth and empowerment of women occurs both in the individual aspect and in the collective and social aspect. The research was based on a qualitative approach and was carried out in two phases: bibliographic and field. Documentary analysis, conversation circles, observations recorded in a field diary, in addition to semi-structured interviews carried out in the community itself, where they gather, were used for data collection. It was intended to outline the profiles of the women of the MMC of Caetité, highlighting  the life and training trajectory followed by them. The theoretical framework is based on studies and research  dealing  with  peasant  women. Finally, it was possible to perceive that the process of growth of the women of the MMCC, both  in  the individual and collective aspects, was due to the educational practices carried  out throughout this path  of  existence  of  the  movement. The search for knowledge of her own body, sexuality, Creole seeds, income generation through Meuryluta and Apimuc, made her see far beyond what society allowed her to see.