BETWEEN THE HOOK AND THE NET: THE (IN)VISIBLE (IN)EQUALITIES OF GENDER IN FISHING ACTIVITIES OF THE QUILOMBO MOCAMBO - PORTO DA FOLHA/SE

This paper seeks to understand the unequal gender relations in fishing and domestic activities in a quilombo in Sergipe. The theme presents aspects of the reality experienced by fishermen and fisherwomen in the Lower São Francisco region of Sergipe, in a rural area of the municipality of Porto da Folha. The reflections on gender issues are historically marked. Freyre (2003) states that the differentiated social structure between genders in Brazil is derived from a patriarchal society stemming from the colonial system. Davis (2016) and Engels (2019) use history to argue that the emergence of private property and marriage were significant milestones in the differentiation of labor between genders. In order to highlight the role of women in the construction of their own history, Del Priore (1998) writes that women are central protagonists, emphasizing that their stories encompass their families, work, bodies, sexualities, and above all, feelings. In addition to the bibliographic review, the methodology used in this paper was the employment of interviews with nine fishermen and eight fisherwomen from the Quilombo Mocambo, located along the banks of the São Francisco River in the rural municipality of Porto da Folha, in the hinterlands of Sergipe. In this regard, the studies of Meihy (2002), Alberti (2005), and Bourdieu (2006) supported this proposition regarding the importance of interviews and some fragments of Oral History methodology.