THE PROCESS OF RECOGNITION OF WOMEN AS A POLITICAL SUBJECT IN RURAL CONTEXTS

CONTRIBUTIONS OF PUBLIC POLICIES AND POSSIBILITIES OF EMANCIPATORY PSYCHOLOGICAL PRACTICES

Abstract

Rural communities have a long history of resistance and struggle to gain their political and social rights. When analyzing gender issues more specifically, it becomes clear that this exclusion scenario accentuates the inequalities experienced by rural women. Given this, the objective was to analyze the socio-historical path of female emancipation in rural realities, highlighting the existing gaps, the contributions of public policies and the possibilities of emancipatory psychological practices. This article is an exploratory study, with a qualitative approach, bibliographical and narrative review. It is considered valid to point out that the limits of social policies in capitalist society are recognized, however, an attempt was made to discuss the process of recognition of peasant women as bearers of rights and belonging to the productive sphere. In this sense, discuss the construction of gender public policies proved to be essential for the visibility of women's work in family farming and in struggles for land. In addition, the urgency and importance of bringing Psychology closer to the rural environment was evident, with the aim of strengthening the opening of spaces for discussion on gender issues, as well as contributing to exercises of autonomy and emancipation.