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Breaking the Cycle of Women's Paid Domestic Work in Brazil

Breaking the Cycle of Women's Paid Domestic Work in Brazil PDF Author: Anna Maria Del Fiorentino
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527502015
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Book Description
Widening access to higher education has been a political issue in Brazil for a long time, but only in the early 2000s was the education system changed radically. Affirmative action policies were combined with the expansion of the network of federal universities and new funding programmes for higher education. This created a generation of people who are the first within their families to go to university. This book portrays the life stories of mothers who are paid domestic workers in Brazil, and their daughters who belong to the first generation to obtain a higher education degree. The author investigates experiences of social mobility of the first-generation university entrants in contemporary Brazil from a novel perspective – the family dynamics between mothers and daughters. The book introduces the concept of intertwined memories to show how the mechanism of transmission of memories between mothers and daughters drove these women to a relationship of mutual support. This transformed trauma into empowerment, breaking vicious cycles of inequalities and poor mental health among these women.