The present work sought to reflect on how quilombola women from the Barra da Aroeira
community organize themselves in defense of their territory. The delimitation of the
time frame used in this study was restricted to the period from May 19, 2004
(foundation date of the Barra da Aroeira residents' association) to September 3, 2021
(delivery date of the land regularization document to the association of residents of
Barra da Aroeira). The problem of this study was premised on knowing: how these
women from Barra da Aroeira articulate themselves from the quilombola identity and
their territoriality, building daily practices of resistance? The theoretical framework
defined to describe this research had as categories of analysis the following conceptual
parameters: identities; gender; territory. Still with regard to the theoretical contribution,
the aforementioned aspects were the basis of the content that was worked on in this
dissertation, considering, above all, the intersection between these elements and the
Barra da Aroeira community. The methodology chosen for this research was a
bibliographic and documentary study and also having, as subsidies, dialogues with
some women who live in the quilombola community Barra da Aroeira. The results
obtained in this investigation pointed in the direction that the women of that community
have an essential role in the defense of the territory of Barra da Aroeira, however, their
daily struggles also demonstrate that it is essential to guarantee and consolidate
spaces of female representation within that community, especially in collective
decision-making environments.
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