Dona dos cafezais: a ação social e econômica de uma fazendeira de café em Bananal de Itaguaí 1850-1867

Abstract

In view of the women's presence fazendeiras of coffee in the Customs of Nossa Senhora of Conceição of Bananal of Itaguaí (current Seropédica) in the middle of the century XIX, this dissertation takes thematic the participation of the women of possessions in the context of the coffee production in the zone itaguaiense of eight hundred. For that, we select a coffee farmer D. Gertrudes Maria da Conceição to check the limits and means of social and economical action of a woman farmer in the region, which among his actions, was associated with his couples in the defense and maintenance of his productive unity. The inquiry is registered in the field investigative of the history of the women predicting an approach of the propositions methodological of the micro-history.