Mulher e sua afirmação na união geral das cooperativas agro-pecuárias

Abstract

In this work, I intend to analyze the characteristics of gender relations, in this specific case, with the aim of helping to correct the understanding of the benefit and equity that the involvement of all, women and men without discrimination, in the tasks of socio-economic development brings. Show how women's participation in the public sphere makes it possible to denaturalize the behaviors of patriarchal society and reduce the differences in access to opportunities, built on the basis of the subalternity of power between men and women (Young :1975) In the dissertation, I discuss the participation of women in agricultural cooperatives in Maputo Province, where in the most difficult years of the war of destabilization, the "machambas do povoMl" flourished, which later became Cooperatives and Unions of Cooperatives (UGC) having as their superstructure the General Union of Agricultural Cooperatives - my case study. This dissertation is organized into eight chapters. Chapter I deals with the research objectives and methodology used. The II analyzes the participation of women and their insertion in agricultural production; Chapter III deals with the genesis of agricultural cooperatives; Chapter IV discusses what the UGC is; Chapter V is particularly dedicated to analyzing the profile of the woman who currently drives the UGC; Chapter VI studies power relations; Chapter VII analyzes the cooperative movement in other parts of the country: Chapter VIII raises the issue of the direct participation of the UGC in a wider program of poverty alleviation and finally I make general considerations and some suggestions in Chapter IX