The present article retrieved some of the findings in relation to the family and gender transformations of the last decades in the rural areas, according to the collected in the research of my doctoral thesis: "Indigenous peasant coffee cooperative: Violence and alternatives of agency. The case of the ejido Zaragoza, municipality of Ocosingo, Chiapas", which deals with various situations that women in rural areas and their possibilities of agency, to be organized into cooperative. This work has a gender and anthropological approach, based on the ethnography and in the theoretical understanding of what women in these contexts. The research is a contribution in relation to the rural dynamics of the last decades of indigenous families, which are expressed in conjunction with the extra domestic alternatives to generate income and build individual and collective capacities through the cooperative.
Keywords:
gender, generation, agency, cooperative, rurality
Author Biography
Ana Georgina López Zepeda, Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO)
Dra. en Ciencias Sociales con orientación en Antropología por el Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS). Académica del Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO)
López Zepeda, A. G. (2018). Transformations in the relations of gender-families and the indigenous coffee farmers agency in a cooperative. Revista Punto Género, (09), pp 39 – 64. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2018.50548
