Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:13:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2006- Maria de Lourdes Souza Oliveira.pdf: 869070 bytes, checksum: c11ac7d1226df124ff1d45eccd837dcb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-07-18 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The central focus of this study was to think over the existing relationships between women s political practices and changes in gender relations, both in public and private spheres, taking as reference the Saco do Rio Preto Settlement, in Northwest Minas Gerais. It sought to draw the Settlement historical course, showing the stages of mobilization, camping, and settlement, focusing on the changes in gender relations concerning the empowerment processes. The research studied different gender behaviors from the theoretical categories of sexual division of labor, decision-making process, access and control of resources, management of the activities of production, reproduction and commercialization, and the process of political representation. It could be seen that changes in gender relations in the private sphere were more intense in the period of camping, and that changes in the public sphere took place in all phases of the struggle for land process and embraced a larger number of women. Also, the research reinforced that struggle for land does not in itself contain a presumption of guaranteed access to women. On the contrary, changes for women are needed in several fields as in the family, in the community, in the market, and in various levels of the State organization. So, they have been facing confrontations in unexpected and unpredictable situations and places, which do not occur without dispute. As for the empowerment process, it could be seen that it happened in all phases of the struggle for land and goes on, both in the public and private spheres. This has been demanding from them more and more qualification, persistence and sophistication in their political and technical learning process. / Este estudo teve como preocupa??o central refletir sobre as vincula??es existentes entre as pr?ticas pol?ticas das mulheres e as mudan?as nas rela??es de g?nero, tanto no espa?o p?blico quanto no espa?o privado, tendo como refer?ncia o Assentamento Saco do Rio Preto no Noroeste de Minas Gerais. Procurou-se construir a trajet?ria hist?rica do Assentamento, evidenciando as etapas de mobiliza??o, acampamento e assentamento, focalizando as modifica??es nas rela??es de g?nero no que diz respeito aos processos de empoderamento.Estudou-se diferentes comportamentos de g?nero a partir das categorias: divis?o sexual do trabalho, do processo de tomada de decis?o, do acesso e controle dos recursos, da gest?o das atividades de produ??o, reprodu??o e comercializa??o e do processo de representa??o pol?tica. Observou-se que as mudan?as nas rela??es de g?nero no espa?o privado ocorreram com mais intensidade no per?odo do acampamento e que as mudan?as no espa?o p?blico ocorreram em todas as fases do processo de luta pela terra e envolveram um n?mero maior de mulheres. A pesquisa refor?ou ainda que lutar por terra n?o encerra em si um pressuposto de acesso garantido ?s mulheres e que, muito pelo contr?rio, s?o exigidas mudan?as em favor destas em ?mbitos diferentes, quer seja na fam?lia, na comunidade, no mercado e em v?rios n?veis de organiza??o do Estado, o que exigiu dessas mulheres enfrentamentos em espa?os e situa??es inesperadas e imprevis?veis, que n?o se d?o sem contesta??o. Quanto ao processo de empoderamento, observou-se que ele ocorreu em todas as fases de luta pela terra e continua ocorrendo, tanto no espa?o p?blico, quanto no espa?o privado, exigindo das mulheres cada vez mais capacita??o, persist?ncia e sofistica??o no processo de aprendizagem t?cnica e pol?tica.