BETWEEN THE HOOK AND THE NET: THE (IN)VISIBLE (IN)EQUALITIES OF GENDER IN FISHING ACTIVITIES OF THE QUILOMBO MOCAMBO - PORTO DA FOLHA/SE
Carlos Eduardo de Souza Oliveira
Bachelor's
degree student in geography at the Federal University of Sergipe
Email: eduardo-ce@outlook.com
Paulo Heimar Souto
Graduated in History and Master in
Geography from the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS). PhD in Education from
the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and post-doctorate in Education
from the Federal University of Pernambuco. Professor at the Department of
Education and Sergipe and the Professional Postgraduate Program in History at
the Federal University of Sergipe.
Email: heimarphs@hotmail.com
ABSTRACT
This
paper seeks to understand the unequal gender relations in fishing and domestic
activities in a quilombo in Sergipe. The theme presents aspects of the reality
experienced by fishermen and fisherwomen in the Lower São Francisco region of
Sergipe, in a rural area of the municipality of Porto da Folha. The reflections
on gender issues are historically marked. Freyre (2003) states that the
differentiated social structure between genders in Brazil is derived from a
patriarchal society stemming from the colonial system. Davis (2016) and Engels
(2019) use history to argue that the emergence of private property and marriage
were significant milestones in the differentiation of labor between genders. In
order to highlight the role of women in the construction of their own history,
Del Priore (1998) writes that women are central protagonists, emphasizing that
their stories encompass their families, work, bodies, sexualities, and above
all, feelings. In addition to the bibliographic review, the methodology used in
this paper was the employment of interviews with nine fishermen and eight
fisherwomen from the Quilombo Mocambo, located along the banks of the São
Francisco River in the rural municipality of Porto da Folha, in the hinterlands
of Sergipe. In this regard, the studies of Meihy (2002), Alberti (2005), and
Bourdieu (2006) supported this proposition regarding the importance of
interviews and some fragments of Oral History methodology.
Keywords: inequality, gender and fisherwomen.
Reviewed by Current Scientific Journal
on
março 24, 2025
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