WOMEN IN FARM: BRIEFING ABOUT LAND, LABOR, FAMILY, COLOR AND VALUE-DISSOCIATION IN SERRA DO CABRAL

Abstract

This essay analyzes, through the Marxist aegis of the theory of value-dissociation, proposed by Roswitha Scholz, the participation of a specific expropriated generation of women in territorialization of Serra do Cabral, in the northside of Minas Gerais state, throughout the 20^th century. Expropriated both in the diamond mining and on the livestock farm, the basis of that process of occupation and regional formation, and the subsequent forestry, which has introduced modern working relationships on the way to open the region under the economic modernization speech. Supported by interviews and fields of research, this text presents the dissociation of value not restricted to the issue of gender, but also connected to color, due to the peripheral condition of a country of recent slave past. With this, the work exposes the northern hinterland of Minas Gerais as a particularity of the scope of modern capitalist sociability, since the 17^th century, in the prelude to its territorialization, inhabited by historically immiscible women in the process of production, whether in the reproduction of the family, in the production of surplus, and the access to negative freedom.