This dissertation investigates, through the optics of psychoanalysis, the experience of femininity within a rural environment. Concepts of feminine sexuality and femininity in Freud are initially discussed, followed by a new psychoanalytic conception of femininity. Different historical aspects regarding women are approached, concluding with a presentation of the Brazilian rural woman and the changes she is undergoing in time which reflect on her insertion within public space. Finally, an analysis is made of the material collected from 14 interviewed members, suggesting the emergence of new subjective possibilities, which not always comply with the phallus centric model of subjectivity.