Gender social relationships in the country side: the country woman and leisure in the beginning of XXIth century in Brazil

Abstract

This study presents a view on leisure of women in the rural environment in Brazil. With this intuit, an incursion was realized in the literature concerning the leisure study, the ethnography on the country and on woman work in the rural environment and the context of the discussion about gender. Data from the National System on Gender Information and from the Gender, Work and Family research were used to base our observations. In this first approximation was possible to conclude that there are several different possibilities back to the women and men leisure at the rural environment that doesn't change through generations. Before doing a time, or a product to be bought, leisure is lived in the dayby- day, between the work, in the family relationships and in the community.