Power & Everyday Life - Hardcover

Dias

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813522048 ISBN 13: 9780813522043

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 1995

Synopsis

This important new work is a study of the everyday lives of the inhabitants of São Paulo in the nineteenth century. Full of vivid detail, the book concentrates on the lives of working women--black, white, Indian, mulatta, free, freed, and slaves, and their struggles to survive. Drawing on official statistics, and on the accounts of travelers and judicial records, the author paints a lively picture of the jobs, both legal and illegal, that were performed by women. Her research leads to some surprising discoveries, including the fact that many women were the main providers for their families and that their work was crucial to the running of several urban industries. This book, which is a unique record of women’s lives across social and race strata in a multicultural society, should be of interest to students and researchers in women’s studies, urban studies, historians, geographers, economists, sociologists, and anthropologists.

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About the Author:

She holds a bachelor's degree in History from the University of S o Paulo (1961), a Master's degree in Social History from the University of S o Paulo (1965) and a Ph.D. in Social History from the University of S o Paulo (1972). She completed research internships at the British Museum, the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, Yale University and the Library of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She was a research fellow at the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and Visiting Professor at the Tinker Foundation. - She is currently retired Full Professor at the University of S o Paulo, where she maintains master and doctoral orientation activities. Received the title of Professor Emerita of the Faculty of Philosophy of USP in 2013. She was Associate Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of S o Paulo from 1996 to 2013, when she retired. She has experience in History, with emphasis on History of Colonial Brazil and Empire, working mainly on the following topics: historiography, history theory, social history, urban history, slavery, gender relations, culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0813522048
• ISBN 13: 9780813522043
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 221