El lugar de las mujeres pobres: el caso de las beneficiarias de planes sociales

this article's aim is to think and analyse the situation of those women who receive any of the social plans implemented in the last years in our country (such as programa de empleo transitorio "entre nosotros", the programa "madres" and the plan jefes y jefas de hogar desocupados), in the light of theoretical arguments developed from cultural geography and specially from the so called gender geography. this discipline's contributions provide analytical perspectives to enrich the process of thinking about the gender relationships, the place occupied by the women in the society, the identities built according to the place women occupy in the social structure, and the role played by the social policy in the construction of such identities. in the analysed cases, it can be appreciated how the different places occupied by the beneficiaries of programs acquire different values and meanings, which produces a search for spaces that have a positive social valuation and that contribute to the construction of new identities.