Women who combine with the Jaguaribe river: eating to take care of bodies, relationships and the fight of fisherwomen, Ceará

Abstract

In this article, I intend to examine the political actions of fisherwomen from the Jaguaribe River, in which eating is relevant to the construction of bodies and relationships, whether intimate or public, within spaces related to the domestic. I also seek to understand how this act of care enters the spaces of activism where they construct their forms of defense of the body-land and water territory. I thus highlight the action of women as politicians, making explicit the centrality of their agency in the creation of life that is also made with non-humans. Perhaps, in this way, we can articulate a debate on land governance undertaken by fisherwomen, contemplating waters and the body, both as a fundamental part of the land issue.