Tal Conceição, Conceição de Tal. Class, gender and race on poor women's everyday in Rio de Janeiro during the first republican decades

Author(s)

Silvana Santiago

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2006-08-24

Examining board members

Maria Clementina Pereira Cunha; Elciene Azevedo; Magali Engel

• Advisor: Maria Clementina Pereira Cunha

Abstract

From the combination of legal proceedings sources, literature and popular music, this work intends an investigation on how some estereotypes were established specially those related to mulata¿s sensuality, beauty and sexuality. Examining gender, class and race concepts, my proposal is to think how these estereotypes may be noted on black (and ¿mestiças¿) women¿s everyday, mostly poor, from the end of nineteenth century and the begining of twentieth century, period just after the slavery abolition in Brazil and short after the Republic proclamation. Using women¿s legal proceedings whose name Conceição was arranged among another names, I examine how images and estereotypes about black women rise on police and juridical environments. Next, I work the period¿s literature and music as privileged stages to allegory readings of these estereotypes (AU)