Dona Flor

Dona Flor
Author: Pat Mora
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2013-06-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0385376146

Doña Flor is a giant woman who lives in a puebla with lots of families. She loves her neighbors–she lets the children use her flowers for trumpets, and the families use her leftover tortillas for rafts. So when a huge puma is terrifying the village, of course Flor is the one to investigate. Featuring Spanish words and phrases throughout, as well as a glossary, Pat Mora’s story, along with Raúl Colón’s glorious artwork, makes this a treat for any reader, tall or small. Award-winning author Pat Mora’s previous book with Raúl Colón, Tomás and the Library Lady, received the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award, an IRA Teacher’s Choice Award, a Skipping Stones Award, and was also named a Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List title and an Americas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature commended title. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Author: Jorge Amado
Publisher:
Total Pages: 590
Release: 1969
Genre: Brazil
ISBN:

A woman, remarried after her first husband's untimely death, summons her first husband from the grave.

Tieta

Tieta
Author: Jorge Amado
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780299186548

Banished for promiscuity, Tieta returns to the seaside village of Agreste after twenty-six years. Thinking she is now a rich, respectable widow, her mercenary family welcomes her with open arms. But Tieta is forced to reveal her true identity in order to save the town's beautiful beaches from ugly development. For the only way she can stop the factory is to call upon her close connections in Sao Paulo's highest political and financial circles--as only the Madam of the city's ritziest bordello can.

Her Story So Far

Her Story So Far
Author: Monica Das
Publisher: Penguin Global
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This important collection showcases the most sensitive short fiction on the subject of the girl child by some of India's finest writers. The stories cut across social, economic and regional divides to reveal what life is like for a girl growing up in India. And they raise a crucial question: will our society ever rise above its innate hypocrisies and change the way it regards its women? To read these stories is to feel pain, bewilderment, outrage, compassion and a sudden surge of hope at finding love and tenderness where one least expects it.

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Author: Jorge Amado
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2006-09-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307276643

It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes–a gambler notorious for never winning—dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho was not, and is altogether happy to marry him. But after her wedding she finds herself dreaming about her first husband’s amorous attentions; and one evening Vadinho himself appears by her bed, as lusty as ever, to claim his marital rights.

Domestic Economies

Domestic Economies
Author: Susanna Rosenbaum
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2017-12-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0822372266

In Domestic Economies, Susanna Rosenbaum examines how two groups of women—Mexican and Central American domestic workers and the predominantly white, middle-class women who employ them—seek to achieve the "American Dream." By juxtaposing their understandings and experiences, she illustrates how immigrant and native-born women strive to reach that ideal, how each group is indispensable to the other's quest, and what a vital role reproductive labor plays in this pursuit. Through in-depth ethnographic research with these women at work, at home, and in the urban spaces of Los Angeles, Rosenbaum positions domestic service as an intimate relationship that reveals two versions of female personhood. Throughout, Rosenbaum underscores the extent to which the ideology of the American Dream is racialized and gendered, exposing how the struggle for personal worth and social recognition is shaped at the intersection of motherhood and paid employment.

Myth and Ideology in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction

Myth and Ideology in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction
Author: Daphne Patai
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1983
Genre: Brazilian fiction
ISBN: 9780838631324

Analyzing the thematic and formal characteristics of six contemporary Brazilian novels, this study explores the use of myth and its ideological implications. The writers examined are Maria Alice Barroso, Clarice Lispector, Jorge Amado, Carlos Heitor Cony, Adonias Filho, and Autran Dourado.

Violence in the City of Women

Violence in the City of Women
Author: Sarah J. Hautzinger
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2007-09-17
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0520252772

Brazil's innovative all-female police stations, installed as part of the return to civilian rule in the 1980s, mark the country's first effort to police domestic violence against women. This work explores this phenomenon as a window onto the shifting relationship between violence and gendered power struggles in the city of Salvador da Bahia.

Female and Male in Latin America

Female and Male in Latin America
Author: Ann Pescatello
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2010-11-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822974215

A pioneering study of Latin American women that views contemporary perceptions and realities of women’s lives, women’s roles in modernization versus tradition, the conflicts of class struggles among women, and the future of women's participation in Cuban society.