Rural women and leisure experiences: displacement of the self towards the other’s life and need

Abstract

Lately, leisure establishes a new moral of promise, welfare, happiness, health, security. This way, we seek to understand, from rural women trajectories, how they construct their experiences in leisure time, in the net of responsibilities and self-care. This research was set in the town of Joia, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. From the analysis that resulted from this investigation, it is clear to us the fact that women have asked us initially: “What is leisure, exactly?”. We have taken those inquiries as a request for more information, but, gradually, we started to understand that the leisure of adults and, even more, of those women, has been a dimension lived with scarce possibilities. We focused on a movement that we named displacement position, in which women displace their attention from caring for themselves and occupying themselves with themselves in the leisure time, to take care for the other.

Keywords

• Cuidado de si
• Mulheres
• Lazer