<p>The typical face of poverty in South Africa is African, rural, and female. As the primary users of rural land, women engage in farming and subsistence activities. Despite this pivotal role played by rural women, they experience grave problems under communal tenure, most notably in relation to access to and use of land and productive resources. Research has shown that the majority of rural households in South Africa derive significant proportions of their livelihoods from land-based activities, and that the value of common property resources associated with land, for example livestock production, crop production, and natural resource harvesting is often overlooked as an important asset of poor rural communities. The importance of these landbased livelihoods sources is even greater for female-headed households, female members of rural households, and the very poor or &lsquo / marginalised&rsquo / members of rural communities, since they tend to be more reliant on landbased livelihoods than those with secure income from pensions, wageearning activity or remittances from migrant labourers. The importance of security of land tenure to the sustainability of rural livelihoods, particularly insofar as rural women are concerned, is the central focus of this study.</p>

<p>The typical face of poverty in South Africa is African, rural, and female. As the primary users of rural land, women engage in farming and subsistence activities. Despite this pivotal role played by rural women, they experience grave problems under communal tenure, most notably in relation to access to and use of land and productive resources. Research has shown that the majority of rural households in South Africa derive significant proportions of their livelihoods from land-based activities, and that the value of common property resources associated with land, for example livestock production, crop production, and natural resource harvesting is often overlooked as an important asset of poor rural communities. The importance of these landbased livelihoods sources is even greater for female-headed households, female members of rural households, and the very poor or &lsquo / marginalised&rsquo / members of rural communities, since they tend to be more reliant on landbased livelihoods than those with secure income from pensions, wageearning activity or remittances from migrant labourers. The importance of security of land tenure to the sustainability of rural livelihoods, particularly insofar as rural women are concerned, is the central focus of this study.</p>

Submitted by Maria de Lourdes Mariano (lmariano@ufscar.br) on 2017-03-06T18:05:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 LINO_Amanda_2014.pdf: 5198344 bytes, checksum: 1b8e0a82c085e2258580bcb9f554ac10 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria de Lourdes Mariano (lmariano@ufscar.br) on 2017-03-06T18:05:38Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 LINO_Amanda_2014.pdf: 5198344 bytes, checksum: 1b8e0a82c085e2258580bcb9f554ac10 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria de Lourdes Mariano (lmariano@ufscar.br) on 2017-03-06T18:05:47Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 LINO_Amanda_2014.pdf: 5198344 bytes, checksum: 1b8e0a82c085e2258580bcb9f554ac10 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-06T18:05:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LINO_Amanda_2014.pdf: 5198344 bytes, checksum: 1b8e0a82c085e2258580bcb9f554ac10 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-02 / Não recebi financiamento / This study aims to examine the relationship between memory of women, participation and education in the context of land reform settlements in the region of Sorocaba, using memories as object of study. Four thematic oral history interviews were conducted, whose themes were: Work, education, participation and politics. These memories revealed the participation process of settled and landless women, whom unveiled a clandestine history, shrouded in riddles in the bowels of restricted participation, politics, education, and the work dialectically substantiated by their experience. We concluded that these memories constructed other perspectives on gender and class as a way to interpret and maintain the resistance and struggles of daily life in four settlements in the region of Sorocaba. / Este é um estudo que pretende analisar a relação entre a memória das mulheres, participação e educação no contexto dos assentamentos de reforma agrária na região de Sorocaba, tendo como objeto de estudo as memórias. Foram realizadas quatro entrevistas de História Oral Temática, cujos temas foram: trabalho, educação, participação e política. Essas memórias revelaram o processo de participação das mulheres assentadas e Sem-Terra, que desvelaram uma história clandestina, envolta nos enigmas nas entranhas da participação restrita, da política, da educação e do trabalho que se consubstanciaram dialeticamente por meio da sua experiência. Conclui-se que essas memórias ressignificaram as perspectivas de gênero e classe como forma de interpretar e manter a resistência e as lutas no cotidiano de quatro assentamentos que estão na região de Sorocaba.