Linking gender, class and race in Brazil1

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2953365
AutoresClaudia Barcellos Rezende (0000-0003-0297-1540, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro), Márcia Lima (0000-0002-3618-9779)
Ano2004
Volume10
Fascículo6
Páginas757-773
Data de publicação2004-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Identities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1350-4630 • E-ISSN: 1363-0296
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1350463042000324265
OpenAlexW2049911478
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas10

This article examines the socio-historical effects of the intersection of representations of gender, race, and the nation which determine black Brazilian women's subaltern social position and inform their self-representations. This intersection is presented from two perspectives: analysis of quantitative data and a case study. Through the examination of socio-economic data on black women participation in the labour market, it show that, when compared with white women and black men, black women are unequally concentrated in certain low paid jobs in the service industry, such as for instance domestic work. Through a brief case study, basically interviews with women from different colours and social classes - i.e. domestic workers and their employers - it shows how the particularities of domestic work inform black women's race and gender self-definitions

Domestic work · Intersectionality · Position (finance · Social constructionism · Subaltern · White (mutation · Labor Movements and Unions