Occupational Class and Female-Headed Households in Santiago Maior Do Iguape, Brazil, 1835

The vision of the patriarchal “Big House” as a model of the Brazilian family is fading in light of new research. In Iguape, a rural parish in the state of Bahia, one-third of the households were female-headed in a population in which the non-slave component comprised 33.8 percent. The number of fema...

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Published in:Journal of family history 1991-01, Vol.16 (3), p.299-313
Main Authors: Díaz, Arlene J., Stewart, Jeff
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brazil
Class
Economic Factors
Families & family life
Female Headed Households
Households
Nineteenth Century
Occupational Classifications
Occupational sociology
Rural Areas
Women
Working Women
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Summary:The vision of the patriarchal “Big House” as a model of the Brazilian family is fading in light of new research. In Iguape, a rural parish in the state of Bahia, one-third of the households were female-headed in a population in which the non-slave component comprised 33.8 percent. The number of female-headed households in this sugar zone increases as one descends both the occupational and the racial hierarchies. The living arrangements of the free/freed population, especially the young and the elderly, show that 43.5 percent lived under the roof of a female-headed household. These findings are illuminating in the context of other studies that propose that female-headed households and the patterns of gender segregation are common to Brazil, as well as, perhaps, to all of Latin America.
ISSN:0363-1990
1552-5473
DOI:10.1177/036319909101600306