Daily life and rural women: Inclusion, equity, and development as transformation tools

Abstract

This article reflects on a topic that has been forgotten for years, but which takes on importance in the current context of a country like Colombia: rural women. In this sense, the paper moves back and forth between two categories: daily life and rural women to demonstrate how the resignification of rural women is possible in Colombia as long as their experiences in daily life are recognized as possibilities of emancipation and transformation. The research was developed with a qualitative approach, using the oral history method. The participants were rural women between 45 and 74 years of age. The paper concludes that the participants’ life experience in the Rural Agro-Ecological School (Escuela Campesina Agroecológica) has a positive impact on their lives, since it allows them to think about and project themselves as social, autonomous, and empowered subjects. In this sense, it is possible to speak of two subjects: one before and one after going through the training experience.