In this we went two Memories of a peasant woman fighting for land: El Jobo, Costa Rica

Abstract

It is an account of a land fight made by and from the perspective of a peasant woman. As the agricultural frontier in Costa Rica was exhausted, in the 1970s and 1980s, peasant struggles to access this resource increased, which was being concentrated, monopolized, in the hands of large landowners, be they private individuals or national companies or foreign. It is about recovering the historical memory of the women who participated in these social movements as fellow fighters, wives, and mothers; aspect that to date has been scarcely studied for the Costa Rican case. Through interviews, the role of women during the process of direct struggle for land has been reconstructed, in order to make their positions visible in regard to the peasant organization, their role as daughters, mothers and wives, their strategies for family survival and communal; also analyze social stereotypes within production and reproduction in their family and community units. Methodologically, we work with in-depth interviews, field observations and the press.