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Restructuring Patriarchy: The Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914-1940 - Brossura

Besse, Susan K.

 
9780807845592: Restructuring Patriarchy: The Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914-1940
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ISBN 10: 0807845590 ISBN 13: 9780807845592
Casa editrice: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017

Sinossi

"Susan K. Besse broadens our understanding of the political by establishing the relevance of gender for the construction of state hegemony in Brazil after World War I. Restructuring Patriarchy demonstrates that the consolidation and legitimization of power by President Getœlio Vargas's Estado Novo depended to a large extent on the reorganization of social relations in the private sphere. New expectations and patterns of behavior for women emerged in postwar Brazil from heated debates between men and women, housewives and career women, feminists and antifeminists, reformist professionals and conservative clerics, and industrialists and bureaucrats. But as urban middle- and upper-class women challenged patriarchal authority at home and assumed new roles in public, prominent intellectuals, professionals, and politicians defined and imposed new 'hygienic,' rational, and scientific gender norms. Thus, modernization of the gender system within Brazil's rising urban-industrial society accommodated new necessities and opportunities for women without fundamentally changing the gender inequality that underlay the larger structure of social inequality in Brazil."

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L'autore

Susan K. Besse is associate professor of history at the City College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York.

Product Description

This volume seeks to demonstrate that the consolidation and legitimization of power by President Getulio Vargas's Estado Novo depended on the reorganization of social relations in the private sphere. New necessities and opportunities for women were created without changing gender inequality.

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Editore
The University of North Carolina Press
Data di pubblicazione
2017
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0807845590
ISBN 13 
9780807845592
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
2
Numero di pagine
304
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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