Abstract
This text describes and analyzes, from a gender perspective, how the working relationships of women in artisanal fishing in Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, focusing on the process of participation and female representation in the Artisanal Fisheries Management Group. Based on qualitative research and narrative interviews, we analyzed the refusal and ban on the use of fishermen’s labor identity through the agency’s native categories of shellfish catcher(s), backyard fishery(ies) and backyard fishery owner(s). These descriptive data were cited and stressed on the theory of sexual division of labor and the analytical category of gender to understand possible inequalities and forms of (in) visibility of female labor in local artisanal fishing. This article is the result of research financed by the Pescarte Environmental Education Project (PEA) which is a mitigation measure required by the Federal Environmental Licensing, conducted by IBAMA.
Keywords:
Artisanal fishing; Sexual division of labor; Genre; Identity; Environmental education