O trabalho feminismo em seringais do Acre (1960-1980)

Abstract

In order to highlight the women's contribution exercised in the work performed in rubber plantations of the state of Acre, located in south of the northern region of Brazil, this paper aims to demonstrate how women contributed effectively cutting the rubber trees in latex collection, in the handmade manufacture of rubber, in the agriculture and in the constitution and establishment of immigrant families that came from the brazilian northeast region. Through reports obtained by interviews and informal taks with rubber workers showing which are their main functions while residing in the rubber plantations between the years 1960-1980, from oral narratives, women report how they used their talents and resources to help in support of their families, how they persisted every day and how this so hard labor brought harmful consequences to health, portraying their experiences in the forest as rubber tapper, farmers, fisherwomen and helpers in many functions.