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Book Synopsis
The lives of Brazilian working women in the late nineteenth century.

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Social and feminist historians will certainly applaud the sensitivity with which this book unveils the duress of servants' working and living conditions without neglecting to portray human endurance and individual or collective resistance to oppression from above. Everybody will read with great pleasure this creative, well argued and elegantly written book. * Journal of Latin American Studies *

Table of Contents
  • List of tables
  • List of illustrations
  • List of maps
  • Note on Brazilian currency
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Setting and Origins
    • Introduction
    • 1. The social landscape of house and street
  • Part II. Servants' World
    • 2. The work
    • 3. Private lives in public places
  • Part III. Masters' World
    • 4. Protection and obedience
    • 5. Contagion and control
  • Postscript
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Tables
  • Glossary of Portuguese words
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/11/1992
      ISBN13: 9780292727571, 978-0292727571
      ISBN10: 0292727577

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The lives of Brazilian working women in the late nineteenth century.

      Trade Review
      Social and feminist historians will certainly applaud the sensitivity with which this book unveils the duress of servants' working and living conditions without neglecting to portray human endurance and individual or collective resistance to oppression from above. Everybody will read with great pleasure this creative, well argued and elegantly written book. * Journal of Latin American Studies *

      Table of Contents
      • List of tables
      • List of illustrations
      • List of maps
      • Note on Brazilian currency
      • Acknowledgments
      • Part I. Setting and Origins
        • Introduction
        • 1. The social landscape of house and street
      • Part II. Servants' World
        • 2. The work
        • 3. Private lives in public places
      • Part III. Masters' World
        • 4. Protection and obedience
        • 5. Contagion and control
      • Postscript
      • Abbreviations
      • Notes
      • Tables
      • Glossary of Portuguese words
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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