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“THE UNIVERSITY IS NOT A SPACE MADE FOR PEOPLE, BUT THE AGENT IS OCCUPYING IT”: PEASANT WOMEN IN THE BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN EDUCATION AT THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RECÔNCAVO DA BAHIA-UFRB.

Keywords: Peasant Women; University; Field Education; Feminism.

This thesis analyzes the trajectories of peasant women at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia, entering the course of Degree in Rural Education - Agricultural Sciences in the period from 2013 to 2020. With their ways of life, they lead the peasant and female struggle, their flags, work instruments, swollen and machete to rewrite other narratives within the academy, bringing their writings and causing ruptures in the social structures demarcated by the oppression of gender, race, class and the historical violence of the latifundia in Brazil. Upon entering the university, rural women seek not only the mere reproduction of academic knowledge, but the first desire to legitimize the knowledge that their ancestors carry. For these women, more than entering higher education, they also start to write their own stories and build political identities. Based on the methodological support of (auto)biographical Narratives, we analyzed the trajectories of these women based on their narratives. This study is part of the field of feminist research, as in addition to giving centrality to peasant women, making their trajectories and experiences visible, it contributes to the significant discussion about feminism and gender relations with a focus on the presence of women in the university and in Education from Camp. Thus, in this thesis it was concluded that the insertion of rural women in the University can be considered as a strategy of the struggle for land, and a project of female emancipation through Rural Education.