As mulheres da Pracaju: um olhar sobre gênero e Economia Solidária em Baixa das Carnaúbas, Caucaia - CE

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Teixeira, Gabriela Colares
• Orientador(a): Paulino, Antonio George Lopes
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Mulheres – Inclusão social - Baixa das Carnaúbas (Distrito de Guararu, Caucaia, CE); Associativismo - Baixa das Carnaúbas (Distrito de Guararu, Caucaia, CE); Comunidade rural – Desenvolvimento - Baixa das Carnaúbas (Distrito de Guararu, Caucaia, CE); Women; Solidarity Economy
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/26898

This dissertation deals with the association of experience within the social economy, women in the group Pracaju project - Rural Production Alternative Cashew held in Lower community of Carnaúbas, locality Matões, Guararu district of Caucaia - CE. This project is the production of food for sale from fruits of the region, with the flagship beneficiation Cashew (Anacardium occidentale), making use, however, during the off season, other fruits that occur in the community, as hog plum (Spondias mombin), guava (Psidium guajava), mango (Mangifera indica), acerola (Malpighia glabra), ubaia (Eugenia pyriformis) etc. On the assumption that poverty affects specifically women, the investigation was scope to understand how women of an associative project in Ceara rural areas live the collaborative process between them, and how they experience and interpret the experience of being linked to an association and income generation. In this context, this research is directed to analyze how features a process in motion which has solidarity as a possible way to stimulate the breaking of a dependency logic intrinsic to a patriarchal society, to open up prospects for autonomy and of harmonious coexistence with the environment. The study has also sought to understand how such cooperation contributes to the local development of the community where the project operates. The field work was inspired by an anthropological perspective and prioritized the adoption of strategies, methods and qualitative techniques, in order to observe the process of self-organization of these women. In addition to field observation, recorded interviews were conducted that followed a semi-open script. The research was theoretical and conceptual contributions on the topics: gender, social economy, theory of gift and local development.