CAPITALISM AND PATRIARCHY IN THE COUNTRYSIDE: TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN

Abstract

This article aims to present reflections on the origin of patriarchy from Engels' book "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State", seeks to demonstrate how patriarchal culture manifests itself in the countryside and in peasant culture, directly affecting peasant women, by devaluing, disregarding and keeping in invisibility the work of women in the production of food for the self-sustenance of peasant families,  as well as for women's economic autonomy. It also addresses the concepts of productive, unproductive and service labor, as well as the sexual division of labor in the countryside and power relations in peasant territories.