What it is to be a woman in the contemporary rural

an ethnographic approach in the municipality of Marechal Cândido Rondon, Paraná.

Abstract

This research analyzes the female self-perception regarding the rural, urban or rural-urban identity contained in the discourse of this group. It is an analysis of a qualitative and ethnographic approach and the theoretical anchorage is mainly from rural sociology. Interviews were conducted with 30 women from the municipality of Marechal Cândido Rondon, in Paraná. All of them live in the countryside, in places they own together with their family. Of this total, 15 work in the city and return to the site daily and 15 work only on the sites. When talking about the place of these women, we do not only do it as a geographical and physical place, but, above all, to that connected to the territorial, cultural and social, directly permeated by identity, which has a strong presence of ethnic relations, in this case, “Germanity” which is characteristic in the municipality, due to colonization. At the end of the research, we concluded that these women demonstrate a direct relationship between countryside and city, reflected in their ways of life, even living on the farm. This is true even for those who do not work outside the farm, but who establish a close connection of dependence with the urban environment, whether for trade or socialization.

 KEYWORDS: Rural-Urban. Identity. Gender. Women.