The organization of rural women makes them a new political subject that pressures on States and international institutions to develop and implement specific policies not only for rural areas and family agriculture, but for rural women. In this sense, intersectionality is a fundamental tool to understand the different identities that these women embody, and the combination that is very present in their discourses: class and gender, as transversal elements in addition to rurality. The transnational practices of rural women’s organizations function as a means of articulating and strengthening demands, broadening the spaces for political participation, where the Peasant Women’s Movement (MMC) of Brazil emerges as a central political subject in the last two decades, as State and regional reference in raising the flag of food sovereignty and agroecological production as nuclear elements of a process of transformation that goes from the local to the global. Starting from an intersectional and multiscalar analysis, this work presents part of a finalized doctoral research, and its objective is to show how intersectionality is articulated as the axis of political organization and territorial identification, contributing to the understanding of the configuration and networking of peasant women in Latin America. Based on the case study of the MMC in Brazil, this proposal analyzes the centrality of intersectionality in the political articulation produced in the process of building transnational networks of rural women in Latin America at different spatial scales, which imply the establishment of alliances on a regional scale and the creation of new spaces of demand based on the production of their political demands as women and as peasants.

Graduated in Social Science in Brazil at de Catholic Univesity of Rio Grande do Sul, Master dregree in Latin American Studies and PhD in Political Science at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Researcher in the field of Feminist and Political Geography, Feminist geopolitics, trasnational women’s network, feminism, peasant women, food sovereignty, Latina America, Social Movements, Women’s Movement.

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