This work approaches womens' emancipatory processes, specially those by small farmers in Southern Brazil, within the Rural Working Women's Movement of Rio Grande do Sul - MMTR-RS. Rural working women's daily life provide us with crucial elements to understand their social action, as the field in which they produce cultural meaning. Besides, the focus on daily life reveals the impact of historical, economical, religious and political contexts in which action develops, and helps us to understand how participants identify a set of problems as collective demands and challenge public arena.
social movements; gender; citizenship; agriculture; Brazil