Trajetórias e resistências de mulheres sob o colonialismo português (Sul de Moçambique, XX)

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ID5797258
AuthorsJuliana De Paiva Magalhães (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-10-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeTHESIS
PublisherUniversidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11606/t.8.2016.tde-25102016-124247
OpenAlexW2625915446
LanguagePT
Citations received1
References cited10

This PhD research aimed to disentangle individual and collective trajectories of women in southern Mozambique under the control of Portuguese colonialism.From different document types relating to the first half of the twentieth century, the study aimed to understand how they lived those with the status of indigenous people.Being Indian was to be linked to a status determined by a set of laws, decrees and colonial practices, which basically established the relationship between citizens (whites, Indians and blacks and assimilated mulattoes) and indigenous (African / black), the latter considered by Portuguese colonists as subhuman and therefore relegated to one second-class citizenship.Our proposal was to make a social history and feminist indigenous women focusing on women's agency for (and despite of) the structural violence of domination project, patriarchal, colonial and capitalist carried out by the Portuguese.We intend to show that women who lived in southern Mozambique in the first half of the twentieth century, despite the misogynist brutality expressed by both African traditions and the colonial administration, were able to various strategies and practices opposed to male violence

Art · Citizenship · Colonialism · Ethnology · Humanities · Indigenous · Political science · Portuguese · Social science · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender, Sexuality, and Education · History · Law · Literature, Culture, and Criticism