Description
In the field of agrarian history, studies that consider peasant women to be key players in the different production processes, in the management of farms and in neighbourhood networks or in the social and political life of peasant communities have become increasingly important. Within this framework, on 4 November 2022, the Associació d'Història Rural in collaboration with the Centre de Recerca d'Història Rural of the Universitat de Girona, organised a seminar entitled Conflict and gender in the rural world, 18th-20th centuries, which analysed the sources that allowed a better understanding of the daily life of these peasant women and the daily conflicts that conditioned kinship relations and their links with the community, as well as the sexual division of labour and class conflicts.
The book you have in your hands contains a large part of the contributions made at this seminar. Throughout these pages we highlight the documentary sources that allow us to better understand the different roles and conflicts that these women faced in the peasant communities, referring to the press of the time, the account books of the labourers of different rural estates, the documentation corresponding to different charitable establishments, the documentation of judicial origin or photography as a historical source. This documentation gives visibility to rural women, considering the social and power relations in the home and in the rural community, their capacity for agency and the role played by neighbourhood networks, as well as the relations that were established in the feminised spaces of the rural nuclei.
