Maria Odila Silva Dias

Power and Everyday Life

The Lives of Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 151mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780813522050
• ISBN-10: 0813522056
• Artikelnr.: 29761689

Autorenporträt

Dias, Maria Odila Silva

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The Other Witnesses / Eclea Bosi
1. Daily Life and Power
2. Bakerwomen and Women Stallholders: Survival and Resistance
3. The Myth of the Absent Lady
4. Ladies and Women Slaves at a Price
5. Slaves and Freedwomen Vendors
6. The Local Community
7. The Magic of Survival