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This article aims to interpret the relationship between gender roles and the spatiality of / on patron saints' days in two rural communities of Imbituva-PR. To cast a glance to the patron party production and gender relations from the representations of the work to be done by men and women, the text sets a qualitative sampling of gender representations spatialized in rural communities. Fieldworks are used as research techniques, involving the observation of events and interaction with the participants. The inter-relationship between the observations of phenomena and moments that make up the celebrations, interviews with organizers of events and connections to the literature addressing the issue of social gender relations guided one objectification process of subjectivity of those who organize the parties. In the case studies that support this article, practices that guide the gender representations, glimpsed by the motto of spatiality (spatial order) refer to a shared qualitative-normative set and takes place by means of a spatial differentiation. When considering gender as a representation, the research shows that during the production of the patron saints' days, the social gender roles are performed by spatial dynamics that distinguish levels of male and female performances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is the result of a survey, in which we attempted to understand the experiences of housing of the current residents of the Residential Londres, located in Ponta Grossa-PR, in the composition of the current space experience, their respective perceptions and crossovers with structural issues of the capitalist city, with its central element the access to housing through public policies. The work development was supported by qualitative methodology, especially with semi-structured interviews, recorded, transcribed and later interpreted. Among the results of the research, we highlight an intense supportive interaction between the neighborhood as a central element in the production of a membership of space, also mediated by positive assessment of the current residence designed dialectically in relation to the precarious state of their old houses, at an irregular space and located in areas of environmental hazards. Although the issue of the space experience is to reference a comprehensive grasp of the world, both in the references, the configuration of the perception of "production of the urban space", it is emphasized that these elements are from a critical political reading of the residents, a phenomenon that read themselves as configured by direct experiences with the state in the fight for the living. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]