IN PARAÍBA, THE BIRTH OF MARGARIDA(S): Situated Experiences and Rural Feminist Tessituras in Brazil

Abstract

This article aims to bring together the feminist experiences of the Margaridas, rural women who are inspired by Margarida Maria Alves, a trade unionist from Paraíba who was murdered in 1983, and who are responsible for the largest women's action in Latin America: the March of the Margaridas. This work is welded to the methodology of oral history to highlight the speeches of the Paraíba Margaridas interviewed during their trip to the 6th March, in 2019. I also draw on theoretical dialogues with Scott (1999), Thompson (1987) and others. I understand that, in movement, these women weave a Brazilian rural feminism, which is therefore forged on marches, and that my experiences – which come from my own place – are not disassociated from those herein narrated.