Trajectories of peasant women in Espírito Santo: permanence’s and discontinuities

Abstract

This article aims to understand the trajectory of peasant women in Espírito Santo from the period of 1930 to 2017, in the search for an understanding of the ways in which they lived/live and perceived/perceive their childhood, personal trajectories, insertion processes as workers and participants in the social spaces of their communities, as well as the meanings that schooling assumes throughout their lives. It uses as theoretical and methodological support Carlo Ginzburg's (1988, 1989, 2002, 2007) thinking, based on the assumptions of microhistory and the indicial paradigm, in cooperation with Mikhail Bakhtin's (2003, 2004) work, taking the narratives as concrete statements. As a source, it analyzes the narratives of four peasant women, born in Espírito Santo, materialized in the Cadernos da Realidade (Notebooks of Reality) of graduation students in Countryside Education/UFES. The analysis indicates continuities and discontinuities in the trajectories of these women in the period of investigation. As permanencies, it stands out that women still occupy domestic spaces, mainly exerting herculean activities, devoid of economic value. In addition, the patriarchal model of family/society is presented in the narratives and in the records of women from different generations. Evidence of discontinuities also emanate from the documents, such as: insertion as a child in the schooling process, the role of women in domestic services, community and wider spaces in society, such as the University.

Keywords

• Peasant Women
• Notebook of Reality
• Espírito Santo
• Permanence’s
• Discontinuities