"Streetwalkers, whores and suppliers". Violence and work among rural women on the Mexico-Belize border

Abstract

The international border existing between Mexico and Belice is an intercomunal border where its population has built up a relation with their land and its context of new ruralities and an specific kind of labor. Labors that women develop are related with the tourism, archeological heritage of the área, informal trade and some agricultura activities that still prevail. Their principal feature is that they are flexible and precarius, and they are accompanied by occupational violence like exploitation, non labor right, between others. This article will address the study of the relation between the female labor and the forms of violence they endure for doing this kind of work, it could be in the working space, in their community or with their mates. It adresses a theory to study different levels violence and the precarius labours that are normalized in the female being. We conclude that femenine work continue imbricated with a cultural gender normative that detain an equality in the participation of women in the economy, and that in many times femenine work supports womens violence.