Vincoli d’amore tra le Alpi. Note di campo sull’ineguaglianza di genere e di generazione in ambito rurale

Love is a complex feeling that we can observe in a lot of forms and shapes. In peasant families of contemporary Switzerland it is expressed with condition of gender inequity and symbolic violence between generations: the most important value is the survival of the farm, despite of workers’ life conditions. The present contribution is based on an ethnographical experience between 2010 and 2012 during the cooperation with the research team: “AgriGenre: gender, generations and equal opportunities in agriculture. Transformation of families and of male and female representations in Switzerland.