The unpaid works of rural women in Brazil
unpaid work, sexual division of labor, rural women, domination, exploitation
This research project deals with productive, reproductive and unpaid work of women in the Brazilian countryside, that is, the totality of works that these women perform for free, both in the sphere of production and reproduction. It has two dimensions that we will try to problematize. The first and foremost are the particularities of those works. The second is the relation that they maintain with the process of domination / exploitation experienced by women in the rural context. Therefore, the general objective is to analyse the particularities of the unpaid productive and reproductive work of women in the Brazilian rural environment and its relation with the process of domination / exploitation of those women. To do that, there are three specific objectives: 1) To analyse the productive and reproductive insertion of women in rural areas, trough the perspective of the sexual division of labour; 2) To identify the main characteristics of unpaid work performed by rural women; 3) To understand the relationship between unpaid work, domination and exploitation of rural women. The theoretical assumptions refer to the Marxist tradition - dialectical and historical materialism - and the analysis of materialist feminism. We will use concepts such as: sexual division of labour, social relations of sex, patriarchy, productive work and reproductive work. It has a qualitative-quantitative approach and the analyses will be based on bibliographic research and the data of the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) on the work of women in the rural environment. The temporal cut will cover the years from 2004 to 2017.