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Restructuring Patriarchy
Susan K. Besse
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Description for Restructuring Patriarchy
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 304 pages, 14 illustrations, 10 tables, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JJF; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 503.
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 Getulio 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 ... Read more
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 Getulio 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807845592
SKU
V9780807845592
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About Susan K. Besse
Susan K. Besse is associate professor of history at the City College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York.
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