Books About Brazil » Gender http://booksaboutbrazil.com Best books about Brazil Sun, 09 May 2010 21:51:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Gender, Catholicism, and Morality in Brazil: Virtuous Husbands, Powerful Wives http://booksaboutbrazil.com/2010/05/08/gender-catholicism-and-morality-in-brazil-virtuous-husbands-powerful-wives/ http://booksaboutbrazil.com/2010/05/08/gender-catholicism-and-morality-in-brazil-virtuous-husbands-powerful-wives/#comments Sat, 08 May 2010 18:07:48 +0000 admin http://booksaboutbrazil.com/?p=613
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Through the ethnography of a Catholic community in Northeast Brazil, Maya Mayblin offers a vivid and provocative rethink of gendered portrayals of Catholic life. For the residents of Santa Lucia, life is conceptualized as a series of moral tradeoffs between the sinful and productive world against an idealized state of innocence, conceived with reference to local Catholic teachings. As marriage marks the beginning of a productive life in the world, it also marks a phase in which moral personhood comes most actively—and poignantly—to the fore. This book offers lucid observations on how men and women as husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, negotiate this challenge. As well as making an important contribution to the ethnographic literature on morality, Christianity, and Latin America, the book offers a compelling alternative to received portrayals of gender polarity as symbolically all-encompassing, throughout the Catholic world.

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]]> http://booksaboutbrazil.com/2010/05/08/gender-catholicism-and-morality-in-brazil-virtuous-husbands-powerful-wives/feed/ 0 Princess Isabel of Brazil: Gender and Power in the Nineteenth Century http://booksaboutbrazil.com/2010/01/24/princess-isabel-of-brazil-gender-and-power-in-the-nineteenth-century/ http://booksaboutbrazil.com/2010/01/24/princess-isabel-of-brazil-gender-and-power-in-the-nineteenth-century/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:25:28 +0000 admin http://booksaboutbrazil.com/?p=322
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As the elder daughter of an emperor whose wife had presented him with no sons, Isabel stood to inherit the monarchy of Brazil with the passing of Dom Pedro II. On three separate occasions, Isabel was named regent, or head of state, when her father was required to leave the country for extended periods. On each occasion, she served as the dutiful daughter, following her father’s instructions to the letter and resisting any attempts at personal aggrandizement. During her third regency, as her father recuperated in Europe, rather than accumulate personal power and oppose the forces of republicanism and abolition, Isabel personally led the struggle to pass the Gold Law of 1888 abolishing slavery throughout Brazil, thus ridding the country of one of the institutions upon which traditional monarchical Brazil was based and speeding the downfall of the monarchy, the monarchy she would inherit, in 1889.

Princess Isabel of Brazil examines Isabel’s role as an extraordinary woman who had access to material wealth and education and power, in patriarchal nineteenth-century Brazil. Professor Barman looks at how her life was constrained by her subordinate roles as daughter, wife, mother, and even as empress-in-waiting, using the fascinating career of Isabel to examine the interplay of gender and power in the nineteenth century.

This new book is an excellent resource for courses biography, women’s studies, and Latin American history courses.

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