Brazilian Women Speak Book

	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction: Constructing a Self	1
1	Commitments
1	Sister Denise: "The People Live the Gospel"	39
2	Carolina: "My Life Was Mainly Helping Anyone Who Needed It"	63
3	Vera: "To Be Mother Only to Your Own Children--That's Very Little"	78
4	Angela: "In Spiritualism There's Real Equality"	109
2	Family Portrait
5	Norma: "I'm Not Just a Superwoman, I'm a Superman"	129
6	Glicia: "The Best Thing Is to Try to Live Well and Shut Up"	153
7	Doroteia: "Family Life Doesn't Exist Anymore"	165
3	"Women's Work"
8	Teresa: "Doing Laundry Is Easier Than Working in the Fields"	175
9	Carmen: "In the Backlands We Work Hard and Marry Young"	179
10	Maria Helena: "I Never Won Anything, Not the Lottery or Anything Else"	185
11	Marta: "When a Maid's in the House, I Lose Half My Freedom"	197
12	Conceicao: "The Rich Have Money and the Poor Have Love"	208
13	Sonia: "I Never Have Time to Sit Down"	213
4	Revolutionaries
14	Celia: "Our Comrade Has Some Petty-Bourgeols Deviations"	231
15	Madalena: "You're a Militant and Homosexual; Obviously There's a Problem"	248
5	Good Girls
16	Branca: "I Want So Little, So Very Little"	273
17	Alice: "I Just Want to Be a Good Girl"	285
6	Entrepreneurs
18	Ana Maria: "The More You Receive, the More You're Obliged to Give"	293
19	Lucia: "I'd Give Up Anything for Work"	313
20	Cristina: "What Did I Aspire To? What Was My Life?"	329
	Notes	349
	Postscript: The New Brazilian Constitution	385
	Index	389