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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Brazilian women"”.
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Language and place in the life of Brazilian women in London: writing life narratives through art practice
Studies on Brazilians living in Britain show that, along with loneliness,unemployment and cost of living, the lack of proficiency in English is a key problem. However, there is little qualitative information about how the host language affects their daily lives. This interdisciplinary …
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Marital Satisfaction and Depression in a Study of Brazilian Women: A Cross-Cultural Test of the Marital Discord Model of Depression
… has linked depression and marital discord, with women frequently having a higher association between variables. Several longitudinal research studies have linked marital satisfaction to subsequent depression. The Marital Discord Model of Depression states that marital discord is an important …
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Women, the city, and spatial citizenship examining identity formation and employment amongst Afro-Brazilian women in Rio De Janeiro and Belo Horizonte
… and is reflected in employment outcomes for Afro-Brazilian women.
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Market work and household production in Brazil
… are related to the double burden that accrues to Brazilian women. The first and second papers address this issue by looking at expenditure decisions about home production. The first paper examines whether the expenditure decisions about production goods, such as white appliances, relative to …
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Mulheres negras na política: trajetória social e política de mulheres negras às eleições municipais de Salvador (2008 - 2012)
… implications of the experiences of black women who ran as candidates in the elections of 2008 and 2012 for the Municipality of Salvador. From the interfaces between race and gender intersected with other explicit identities within this process intragênero the differences, in the sense …
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From the Dumpster to the Bookshelf: Literature Written by Black Women in Brazil and the Quest for Mobility from 1960 to the Present
… dissertation project, I argue that eight black women writers and a collective of black women writers produced literature that defy assigned spaces in Brazilian urban spaces starting in 1960 until the present. I particularly analyze Lélia Gonzalez and Beatriz Nascimentos’ academic essays; …
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Gender practices and the business-household nexus: Women’s entrepreneurship in São Paulo, Brazil
This study investigates how women’s entrepreneurship in the emerging economy of Brazil shapes traditional gender practices and power relations in the households and female-owned enterprises of the ‘ABC Paulista’, Greater São Paulo. Specifically, the thesis explores the business-household nexus and …
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Black Brazilian female dancer-choreographer-educators : creating alternative axes of action in the African diaspora
This dissertation examines the potential of black women dancer-choreographer-educators to re-imagine their artistic, cultural, and sociopolitical identities in the African diaspora. By introducing the concept of alternative axes of action as spatial longitudinal oblique lines established slightly …
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Jovens universitários portugueses: um olhar sobre as mulheres brasileiras
As atitudes favoráveis ou desfavoráveis em relação a indivíduos, baseadas na sua pertença a determinado grupo são definidas por Neto (1998) como preconceito, cuja manifestação comportamental se traduz em discriminação. A decisão de avançar para a presente dissertação prendeu-se com três motivos …
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As representações sociais das mulheres migrantes brasileiras vítimas de violência doméstica
O tema a que se refere este estudo foi escolhido dada a atualidade e a pertinência da temática da violência doméstica na nossa sociedade, sendo reconhecida e assumida como um crime público e uma forma grave de violação dos direitos humanos. Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar, identificar e …
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As competências interculturais no processo de integração das imigrantes brasileiras em Cascais
A presente dissertação levou-nos a recolher excertos dos inquéritos, por entrevista, aplicados a oito mulheres participantes que nos ajudaram a compreender como as competências interculturais influenciaram o processo de integração em Cascais, Portugal. Ver o/a outro/a como igual apesar da sua …
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Ancestralidade como fator de risco para hipotireoidismo: estudo da coorte ELSA-BRASIL
… descend. The self-reported ancestry of the Brazilian population is subject to important genomic divergence and there are sensitive markers capable of stratifying the three main Brazilian ancestral roots. The prevalence of hypothyroidism in Brazil is approximately 7.4% and has been …