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Women and Working-Class Mobilization in Postwar São Paulo, 1945–1948

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

John D. French  and
Mary Lynn Pedersen
John D. French
Affiliation:
Florida International University
Mary Lynn Pedersen
Affiliation:
University of Georgia
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It has often been observed that “Where power is, women are not.” Noting women's virtual absence from the realm of conventional politics, Jane Jaquette urged scholars in 1980 to look beyond elections in studying female political participation in Latin America. Arguing for an “expanded notion of the political,” she called for research on female participation within different social classes, especially their role in “informal networks, … clientele linkages, … strike activities, urban land seizures and barrio politics”. This article employs a community study method to investigate women's grass-roots participation in politics and labor mobilization following World War II in the region of greater São Paulo known as ABC (named after the municipios of Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo, and São Caetano).

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Research Article
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , 1989 , pp. 99 - 125
Copyright
Copyright © 1989 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

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An earlier version of this article was presented at the Fourth Latin American Labor History Conference on 18–19 April 1987, sponsored by the Yale University Council for Latin American Studies and the University of Connecticut Center for Studies of Latin America and the Caribbean (French 1988b). The author would like to thank Emilia Viotti da Costa, Deborah Levenson, Asunción Lavrin, Catherine Taylor, Teresa Veccia, Joel Wolfe, and the four anonymous LAR readers for their helpful comments. Marianne Schmink also provided useful bibliographical suggestions. This research was undertaken with grants from the Women and Gender Research Institute of Utah State University, with the help of research assistant Mary Lynn Pedersen.

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