This article discusses political alternatives proposed by peasant women during rural social movements in Brazil, such as the Landless Workers Movement (MST) and the Peasant Women Movement (MMC). From bibliographic review, document analysis, interviews, and participation in events, we sought to understand how politically organized peasant women leaders have articulated alternatives to gender inequalities in rural areas and constructed feminism from their experiences in the country field. We perceive that their claims lead to a particular policy, created by women, but aimed for the overall society. From such policy emerges this feminism that, although under construction, already states the search for new gender, production, and nature relations, based on the daily practices of the peasant women. Despite the advance of neoconservatism in Brazil, these women have been building the popular peasant feminism as a movement of autonomy and hope.
Peasant Feminism; Gender; Peasantry; Rural Women; Hope