Lugar de mulher é em casa?: cotidiano, espaço e tempo entre mulheres de famílias de pescadores

Abstract

This work deals with the search to understand the meanings of men’s and women’s participation in the domestic maintenance of fishing home groups who dwell in the District of Icoaraci (Belém, Pará, Brazil). For this, matter I observed, I analysed and I interpreted their ways os organization of home settings while men are absent for catching fishes; but at the same time I was focused on the other side of that absence: the presence roles, expectations and endeavors of home women as wifes, mothers or parentes in that space and structure. As method, I had secondary data from the Belém Statistical Yearbook; I did field work; I interviewed seven women from the data gathered it is possible to infer that these women work inside (majority) and outside their homes (minority). Them they may be working at home, depending upon their needs and the circunstances or possibilities offered around them. The social relations are organized from its importance for the reproduction of the domestic group, where men, women and children receive different and complementary attributions. In uncurling of the daily activities, the women assume responsibilities in the maintenance of group, conciliating and, many times, accumulating domestic and extra-domestic tasks, and usufructing of a specific status for choices, agreements and taking of decision, data that allow to question and to reflect on the place of the woman in house.