AUTONOMY OF RURAL WOMEN IN PEASANT COMMUNITIES
Autonomy stands out to be a critical issue of participation. Participation itself is a matter of organizational strength and activism. Peasant communities in a vast rural terrain may well be qualified as the 'typical pre-modern sectors' with longstanding institutional stereotypes that account much for unorganizability of the rural women.
Now the broad spectrums of women organization in cosmopolitan urban communities prop up feminism as a 'neo-social movement'. Autonomy of women is the creed of progressive movements spearheaded by urban feminists. The rural women are beginning to feel the impacts of such movement. This is a challenge to patriarchal super-ordination somewhat reflecting 'ideological convergence' of nascent feminism in peasant communities.
The Women’s Peasant Association of Lebrija - AMMUCALE is a leading partner in decision-making and project implementation, allowing actions to be co-ordinated in 14 rural localities. Farmer-to-farmer training through a Campesino School of Agro ecology have allowed results to be multiplied to 8 additional municipalities. At an institutional level, water policy issues are being validated and discussed with municipal government, universities and regional authorities.
In the backdrop of such development it remains to address the dimension of autonomy so far as rural women are concerned. Arguably peasants still nourish conservative attitudes to folk women. Structural and symbolic violence originating from custom, scriptures and pre-existing values tend to undermine women's autonomous status at home and outside the residential locus.
More, the process of rural development has led to the feminization of poverty. Escalating poverty has turned most rural women into a 'fragile locus' vulnerable to exclusion and social ostracism. The poor women, being breadwinners have increased their mobility moving out of the residence in search of employment. Does it really mean enhanced autonomy? A 'multi-plex societal transformation' leaves them in a state of embarrassment with rampant exploitation and predicaments.
The emerging civil societies and change catalysts come forward to join feminist movement. They attempt to enable the rural women to rationally perceive secular-sacred continuum and the myths of feudal ethics curbing their autonomy. The beneficiaries are becoming aware of their due shares in benefits and in public sphere and the adverse effects of community laws and sanctions relating to marriage, inheritance, property, separation, divorce and maintenance.
First launch scientific and technological cultural knowledge to train, improve rural women's scientific and cultural qualities. Give play to and get rich on the woman expert's function on the net, set up and train at some and information transmission station on the net, improve the woman computer network application ability ; Give play to the role of leading project leader, popularize in an all-round way "Order type "Training mode; Give play to the role of every professional association, study and popularize the new practical technique , carry on scientific and technical training regularly; Give play to the role of woman's agricultural expert's group, need to industry's project , send science and technology to countryside irregularly ; Give play to the role of cultural center one, popularize the education in respect knowledge such as the policy , law , culture to rural women.
Second, strengthen the work of women ideology and politics; improve rural women's ideological and ethical standards. With "Carry forward national spirit , establish the spirit of the times , mould women's spirit "It is a theme , further deepen a million women and learn to devote the activity; With "Advocate the new custom , create the new life "It is a theme , develop the activity of various culture and sports extensively , promote the rural cultural construction; With "Set up the model , catch up with the advanced , aspire for development "It is a theme , train , select the tree and propagate all kinds of advanced women models in a more cost-effective manner, encourage the masses of women to make contributions and start one's career in new rural construction.
Third, care about women and take action healthily, improve rural women's psychological body constitution. Based on leading the direction, making mood in order , dissolving the steady overall situation contradictorily, promoting, strengthen new characteristic , investigations of new method and rural woman's psychological state of the rural women's work, to whom rural woman exist being puzzled to carry on positive guide , launch various circles of society care rural survival and development of women; It popularizes the health care knowledge of maternity and child hygiene to propagate in a more cost-effective manner , improve the general survey rate of the rural woman gynaopathy, coordinate related departments to disabled and poor woman appropriate to reduce or remit , check fee and treat fee.
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