“Todo dia é dia de feira": Relações de gênero a partir de uma feira de pequenos agricultores de Santa Maria/RS

Abstract

This dissertation is based on an ethnographic research conducted in a street fair of small farmers located in the city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul/RS. Known as “Feirinha de Camobi” or “Feira da Roraima”, it occurs in the Camobi neighborhood for about eighteen years and it came up from an initiative of the residents association, Sociedade Amigos de Camobi (SACA). The street fair is currently very important for the socioeconomic development of the families that move towards the city with the purpose of marketing their products. It is a place that allows the direct sales between producer and customer, causing them to have more autonomy over their activities. The main objective of this research is to observe how gender relations are manifested in the daily lives of these workers in organizing and holding the street fair. Understanding how this trade area interferes in these relations, both in the domestic environment and the work. Through my ethnographic experience I tried to demonstrate how the street fair modifies the social life of the women that work theres, And how it interferes in domestic life identifying the conflicts that may occur in the family sphere.