Tramas de gênero: um estudo sobre mulheres que tecem redes de dormir em São Bento - MA

Abstract

Analysis of the social relations of gender from the production of hammocks in São Bento city, MA. It addresses the key elements that define the city, realizing the existence of a community of practice focused on the manufacture of handmade hammocks. There are presented knowledge shared by the artisans of São Bento city with regard to knowledge and actions of the hammock. It identifies the craft as a category and highlight the importance of manual activity, investigating its historical foundation and legal aspects related to the regulation of the profession of the craftsman. It discusses the social constitution of gender identities, the meanings of the abjection and gender markers related to the hammocks makers of the city studied. It is perceived gender as a performance made in time from a matrix of heteronormative intelligibility, but that is also producing of this matrix, renewing and / or denying it. To this end, we resort to notions of gender and technology devices through the contributions of Judith Butler, Michel Foucault and Teresa de Lauretis. Examining the senses and gender representations from the point of view of hammocks makers, it explores the constitution of their bodies associated with the work and the implications of a profession that is not legally recognized. It appears that their expectations and identity markers are related to the dynamics of the crafts in capitalism, such the as studies of Walter Benjamin, Nestor Canclini and Helena Hirata suggest. Accordingly, it focuses on the craft of hammocks in a capitalist context whose insertion of women in the working world suffers the impacts of informality, invisibility, insecurity and low payment.