Bolivian women in the Chacras Malargüe, Mendoza, Argentina, their double status as migrants and women

Abstract

This socioeducational study was undertaken in the region of Las Chacras, Malargüe, Mendoza and Argentina. It is focused on the women of the community and their practices, as well as the construction of its significances and different forms of participation in the micro-local reality. Based on the focus of this research, women are considered as a relational being that binds with the world and other social actors. Thus, we have explored the characteristics of the patriarchal model pressure upon gender relations. The stigma of women being represented as weak, domestic, passive, incomplete and isolated, has contributed to their exclusion from social, cultural and political participation. This contemporary social complexity allows explaining the demand and the desire of women to undertake new identities as excluded group in the civil society and redefine gender’s recognition taking into consideration its intervention on culture, as well as the education of the environment with their own particularity.