Men and women in the settlements: violence, refusal and resistence on the building of a new life

Abstract

This paper deals with the building of experience in the rural settlements in relation to the conflict between the demands of the state project and the attempt of creating a new way of life by the settled workers. The tensions created in such a conflict are due to develop acts of violence in the routine of every day and also in the relations of family and gender and of production (or in the family, gender and production relations). There is also on the part of women some episodes of refusal and resistence to what is imposed on them.