De Donas-de-casa a Donas-da-casa : o protagonismo feminino nas camadas medias urbanas na cidade de São Paulo / From Housewises to House-owners : the middle class feminine protagonism in São Paulo City

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2009

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The aim of this thesis is the qualitative analysis of middle class one-parent families led by women in São Paulo Capital. As we dealt with a wide-ranging issue, which implies the conceptual dimensions of genre, class, ethnic group and labour, our main concern was to focus on the changes of the female condition in the second half of the 20th century, with special regard to women s individualization process. Varying from group to group, this process occurs in many different ways; thus, keeping in mind authoritative research on family changes and monoparentality, and the reconstruction of Brazilian historical changes as well, we have observed transformations on the possibilities of choice among middle-class women. To grasp these changes, an interview script was developed and applied to five white women, all mothers aged from 50 to 60 years. These interviews serve as empirical counterpart to a bibliographic revision concerning changes on the construction of female biography during the last century. In this sense, the age bracket we focused on brings its specificities, since it corresponds to the intensification of female integration in the market labour, the feminist mobilization of 1970 s and, finally, the divorce legalization in Brazil. Even though it is a generation which lived in equal conditions to men in some fields, women of this group still experience inequality affirmed by labour market and genre social representations

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evolução social sociologia sociology classe media social evolution individualismo divorce divorcio middle classes individualism

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