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This paper analyzes the settlement process of women returning to rural areas in a feminist perspective. The first chapter describes how their motivations of moving to rural areas and the settlement process reflect their gender experiences. The second chapter explores how these women develop their economic and social activities in rural communities. This study aims to reveal these women migrants' identities as an active and autonomous agent in rural communities rather than as a complier or victim of the patriarchy system, struggling with double burden from housework and economic activities. This research represents that the motherhood identity is one of the factors considerably empowering the women migrants in their settlement process of rural society. Of course, these women occasionally confront a variety of difficulties caused by conservative and patriarchy gender systems. Nevertheless, most of the women keep making efforts to settle themselves in a rural community by looking for feminine jobs appropriate for the gender sensibility and developing their feminine networks. |
