Reconfiguración de las relaciones de género en el contexto rural de La Morañaantropología, género y poder en la economía de mercado

Abstract

The (global) market economy has favored a series of changes in the rural context that are worth investigating. It continues to produce, reproduce and legitimize gender inequality, while expanding as an economic productionreproduction model. These changes have affected the way men and women interact in specific local contexts; in this sense, throughout this thesis it has shown how gender relationships have been reshaped in the rural context of La Moraña based on the economic change of that rural context. This dissertation focuses on the analysis of gender inequalities in the current rural -local context of global market economy. In this frame, there are three main topics that interrelate in this analysis: economy, gender and inequality. Therefore, from gender´s intersectionality point of view, trough a diachronic perspective, the different types of working women in the above mentioned rural context are studied. Also, it is important to clarify how the current gender asymmetries have been built, as to analyze the mechanisms by which it is legitimized and reproduced, as well as to detect the changing gender meanings. In the current rural context, several gender-based perspective development programs and projects have been introduced. These programs have a dual purpose, on the one hand, to try to stop the depopulation in the rural context and, on the other hand, to reduce the gender inequalities of that context. None of the two goals, however, have been successfully achieved so far. Therefore, the meaning of this research aims to try to give an answer as to why gender asymmetries still continues in the current rural context, as well as to contribute to the creation of social spaces in which men and women take part on an equal level and with symmetrical meanings.