How Do Power And Culture Shape Gender? Brazil?

Perhaps many people may argue that both the US and Brazil have similar collections of ethnic and racial groups, that is a big minority of indigenous individuals, such as blacks and immigrants from Germany, Italy, and Asia. The presence of the minority groups in both nations was led by activities such as slavery and colonization during the19th-century (Wade, 2017). Chinese predominate the United States while Japanese predominate Brazil. Globalization and the rapid advancement in technology have demonstrated that technological revolution hasn't done much in altering the way of life and the belief of many people (Moran, 2014). With this in mind, I propose research on the differences in culture between Brazilians and Americans. This is because culture is social hence it is not an individual occurrence, it is a product of society, and it grows from social interaction. Culture is differentiable to us by comparison. Thus we should compare different cultures.

The relationship between the gender roles reflected in telenovelas and the the role of women in Latin American countries is a matter of parallelism. This is because as Judith Butler, the author of the book Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, emphasized that it is “impossible to separate out ‘gender’ from the political and cultural intersections in which it is invariably produced and maintained”. Gender is undeniably socially constructed, and is a product of the values deemed important by that society being constantly reenacted and reinforced. In that sense, telenovelas are also another medium through which beliefs in gender can be relayed to the audience, forming what is called the “imaginable domain of gender” as they either perpetuate or go against ideal hegemony (Beard 2003).

Gender equality can be a very complex subject, throughout the years power has been correlated to gender. In Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, “The Rod of Justice” gender inequities are represented with a great level of complexity and difficult understanding. Throughout the text one can sense Machado’s involvement over authority and control, and how the characters portray this subject. The story is focus on Damiao, who is the main character. Damiao was seeking escape from his seminary obligations, and he requests the aid of his godfather’s mistress, Sinha Rita. He knew that if she could use her sexual powers over his godfather she could help him escape his obligations. She is portrayed in the story as having a power over the people who surrounded her, as her authority was not questioned nor overruled. She had sexual power over Joao Carneiro, and also had to power to manipulate the actions of Damiao, but this power was interesting as in society in those times women had limited power which was not compared to the power men had. Nonetheless, Rita proves to be a well independent women, doing things under her own power. She would have been a women of great power, if she had the chance to live in the 21st century, and how society has altered the gender role of a woman since.

Over the past several decades there has been an increase, in Brazil, of people whom self-identify as being black or Afro-Brazilian. What sparked the rise in these identities in Brazil? Was it possible material and intellectual gains or, sparked from activism, or from other possible factors. The black movement and affirmation of “black” identity came about much later in Brazil than in other countries such as the United States. In my opinion the most important factors for the rise in these identities are the material gains from the Quilombo Clause, the effects of affirmative action and quotas, as well as social activism.

Girls are expected to marry, look after children, and obey their husbands, none of which requires an education, according to both parents and daughters. Girls are expected to be celibate on their wedding night, but the value of being monogamous for young men is not equally important. While machismo is commonly understood to be part of Salvadoran culture, the female version is less obvious but still common. Machisma or matriarquia characterizes a woman who at home controls the family by angrily scolding its members, especially the husband. A mandona, or one who orders another person about, may bully a husband into doing household chores and going to the store. Men are not only the family’s wage earners, but they occupy most positions of authority and power in virtually every aspect of Salvadoran culture, although this is slowly changing. Sometimes men look down on women, and domestic abuse is not uncommon nor is sexual harassment at work or in public. Fathers and mothers alike are deceitful in fostering the values and behaviors of machismo in their sons. Boys are encouraged to attend school and to use their formal training to support their future families. They are allowed to be more independent than girls, the low-income population of rural El Salvador, which educates the majority of the country, experiences an inordinately large amount of disadvantages within their social structure. The gender gap within the culture itself

During the 1900’s in Argentina, the idea of patriarchy authority clearly triumphed over any of the romantic ideas that are not supported or based upon family, bureaucracy or religious instituted. This idea is undeniably backed by the movie Camila directed by María Luisa Bemberg in 1984 and several other sources in “The Argentina Reader” edited by Gabriela Nouzeilles and Graciela Montaldo and “A Brief History of Argentina” written by Jonathan C. Brown. The suffering from the continuity of authoritarianism, shaking politics, and patriarchy is presented during this period.

Throughout the 1950s, Brazil continued to see a great deal of economic growth under President Juscelino Kubitschek and his vice president Joao Goulart. Goulart had previously been Vargas’ Minister of labour and was unpopular with the military because he was viewed as dangerously left wing. He was on the ticket because of the coalition between the Labour Party and the Social Democratic Party that had brought Kubitschek to power. (Calvert 1990, 127) Kubitschek unleased a program of accelerated progress that aimed at “fifty years of progress in five,” but despite making Kubitschek a popular leader, even at the end of his term, he left the country with high inflation due to the debts take on to help industrialize. His successor’s attempts to address the situation were hugely unpopular with the poor and he left office less than a year after election, and he was replaced by Goulart. (Wiarda 1996, 122-124)

Though political fluctuation was abundant in early 1900s Spain, one constant within the society was its predominantly patriarchal nature. It was a society in which power was not associated with women, because women were not viewed as equals to men. Consequently, women lived very restricted lives; their place was limited to the household and their was worth determined by whether or not they were married or by how submissive they acted towards men. Because of the society’s expectations that women should assume roles within the home, there was a vast discrepancy between the educational levels of men and women. Higher education was exceedingly rare among Spanish women and female illiteracy rates reached nearly 70%.

Brazil Did you know that the president of Brazil is a women? Dilma Rousseff Born on December 14, 1947 who became first female president. This woman is prepared, she is an economist and politician she became politician because he was worry about its's nation form of government that was a dictatorship. This woman has change Brazil in many ways mostly for good. The topics I want to talk about are Brazil's government, conflicts and the LGBT discrimination. Some of the conflicts that Brazil has faced during several years and it still have problems... Lack of education LGBT discrimination Civil War Violence Education is really important for a person because she or he needs to be ready for the future. Violence and civil wars has been

Culture varies from one place to another, which is why even the conception of gender and sexuality is perceived in different ways, especially in the lens of a group of males who enjoy anal penetration known as the “travesties (a word derived from transvestir, to cross-dress)” in Brazil. In Don Kulick’s (1997) The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes, he argued that “sexuality might also result in, or be reflective of, different regimes of gender” where the idea of who penetrates who has the capacity to change a “male’s cultural definition and social status”. In addition to that, it is necessary to analyze the core concept of gender rather than the superficial categorization between male and female. However, Kulick posited that the

Brazil is strictly speaking a Catholic nation. The twenty year period between 1965 and 1985 was characterized by a society oppressed by a military dictatorship that spurred a movement towards democratization. In addition, the authoritarian regime had a significant impact on woman in that they took a major stance and made a major difference in reforms in health care

In 1968 Brazil experienced it’s first economic upbeat since the military coup in 1964, “meanwhile the working class continued to suffer the effects of the decreasing wages and other compressive measures in their lives” (1987, p. 142). During the first two years of authoritarian regime, the military intervened on 810 syndicates, replacing its leaders with someone chosen by the government.

Ueno first discusses gender bias in the modern family system and its roots in the Ie System. There is a dynamic contrast between the “public sphere”, a nationwide grouping of individuals, and the “private sphere”, the small grouping of individuals, particularly the nuclear family. Ueno argues, however, that the meaning of the private sphere is totally different between men and women. This is because while men find an emotional shelter from the “public sphere” of competition, women find yet another workplace where they are expected to provide care and love. She recounts that when feminists made this point clear, there was a resounding backlash from the sociologist community which had an interest in keeping the family system. Ueno is implying here that Ie system has trapped women into the role of caregiver

Over the past few decades Brazil has made major improvements to its healthcare system. Before 1988, half of Brazil’s population did not have health care coverage (World Health Organization). This changed when Brazil implemented Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde) which provided universal free healthcare coverage for its citizens. Since its enactment, 75% of Brazil’s population now rely on Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) as their sole provider of health coverage, making it the largest public health system in the world (World Health Organization).

Fast-forward to modern day Brazil and this structure has transformed to follow that of the western world. Today Brazil’s birth rate has dramatically decreased from the average of six children per woman in the 1960’s to around 1.9, even lower that the current U.S. birth rate. This drastic change is primarily due to the change of role that women now play in Brazilian society and their entrance into the workforce. As more women enter the workforce the traditional roles have changed to allow more equal distribution of household chores and child raising between men and women.