Tecendo a rede de mulheres de comunidades extrativistas e pesqueiras do sul da Bahia: reconhecendo e afirmando “ser” mulher

Abstract

This paper bases its research on female identity of seafood fisherwomen, possibly transformed due to the formation and performance of women in fishing and extractive communities‟ network in southern Bahia, aiming to identify and analyze the network's role in social reframing and seafood fishers living in RESEX Canavieiras - BA, and to what extent it has caused changes in economic relation, from its cultural components, whether it is real or symbolic, representative of the social reality to which they belong. It is the study of " recognizing themselves as woman " belonging to a collectivity of women workers. This discussion is relevant to the extent that this experience can serve as a model for other similar situations, becoming a starting point for new experiences and implementation of public policies for the consolidation of women's rights, and indicators of gender equity. We sought as a way of construction, there view of this existing literature, to contribute to the theoretical foundation of the cultural themes, gender‟s identity and women's movements to the empirical knowledge used as a qualitative research, built through a participant observation, over semi- structured interviews and the life of history as well as by analyzing the network‟s reports. Besides the goal behind the presented research a comparison between the reality of women from a Colombian black community that also act in a similar manner to the Brazilian investigated , enriching the work on the different gender relations. Finally the paper presents a future target for the network and its components, which was obtained through focus group with their leader, that built with the researcher goals and objectives for the network maintenance.