Voces y dramatizados de reivindicación: La experiencia en una comunidad rural de Ecuador

Abstract

This paper describes how radio and theatre joint together in a rural community in Ecuador as instruments for women’s rights claiming, highlighting their roles in the public sphere. By means of a qualitative methodology with focus groups, women could show their reality, enclosed in a patriarchal culture that reflects the different faces of violence against women. This action research shows as results that woman´s role as a social subject is invisible and that inequality of roles at household chores affects the woman and that this practice is strongly reinforced in the discourse towards sons and daughters at these homes. Given these circumstances, in edu-communication framework, both radio and theatre stand out with a social and liberating approach in the fight for equal rights and opportunities in men and women relationships. Keywords: Radio; Theater; Patriarchal Culture; Edu-communication; Equality.